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"More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008…
How can race and ethnicity be understood as questions of power? How do changes among racial and ethnic groups alter conflicts about these groups identities and the resultant power structure shaped by these conflicts? The contributors to this important new volume take up these qu…
The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure - from highways cleaving neighbourhoods to laws and policies fortifying even more unbreachable b…
More than half a century after the civil rights era of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, American society is often characterized as postracial. In other words, that the country has moved away from prejudice based on skin color and we live in a colorblind society. The reality, how…
"Activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds th…
"Barack Obama's election as the first black president in American history forced a reconsideration of racial reality and possibility. It also incited an outpouring of discussion and analysis of Obama's personal and political exploits. Paint the White House Black fills a signific…
En juillet 1972, cinq Noirs américains détournent un avion sur Alger afin de s'y réfugier avec leurs enfants pour échapper aux brimades du racisme américain. Quatre d'entre eux finissent par chercher refuge en France. En mai 1976, ils sont arrêtés par la police à Paris à la suit…