The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance

Reviews / Votes

"A timely collection of important writings on radical criminology rooted in abolition and decolonisation, this handbook offers a much-needed map of racial injustice and esistance to it in a global context." (Avery F. Gordon, Visiting Professor, Birkbeck School of Law, University of London and author of "The Hawthorn Archives: Letters from the Utopian Margins")

"This cutting-edge collection challenges Eurocentric social scientific understandings of crime, law, and social control and stimulates new, much needed ways of thinking critically about these topics. It is an essential source of reference for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology, deviance and social control, criminological theory, social policy, race and ethnic relations, and criminal justice." (Walter S. DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University)

"Bringing together key thinkers and writers from disciplines including legal studies, criminology, and sociology, this Handbook provides comprehensive analysis of racial justice across multiple contexts. By including research from the global south and the global north, it provides a wide-ranging and compelling overview of different forms of racism and racial injustice, showing how racial injustice is systemic, global, and embedded in modernity. The volume provides a timely critique of criminology as a discipline, implicating it in racialising crime while arguing for radical criminology approaches such as abolition. I strongly endorse it." (Karen Farquharson, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative, University of Melbourne)

"Brilliantly edited, The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance provides critical insight into how global racial injustice is written into local contexts, operating through a logic that reinforces and strengthens racial hierarchies across the world. It illuminates how racial injustice has been woven into local contexts through colonization, nation-building, immigration and policing. This Handbook is essential for anyone that wants to understand and challenge racial, criminal, and global injustice." (Heather Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mansfield Institute of Social Justice, Roosevelt University)

" The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance is an important contribution to the scholarship and teaching of contemporary derogations that seem to be on the increase everywhere. What is very welcome is the range of contributions and contributors: they give it a genuine sense of an international community of thinkers in serious conversation." (Ari Sitas, Sociologist and Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town, and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

" The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance is a required reading for all who are wondering why the racialized harms caused by patriarchal imperialist power persist around the world and what is to be done about them. The editors assembled an excellent group of international contributors to examine the historically specific concrete conditions of genocide, conquest, slavery, colonization, white supremacy, and resistance that continue to pose threats to justice with hopes of liberation everywhere. The chapters in this Handbook enrich our understanding of the extent of the harms and the promise of decolonization and abolitionism as suitable tools for organizing resistance intellectually and practically against state-sponsored social harms. I endorse this book without hesitation." (Biko Agozino, Professor of Sociology, Virginia Tech.)