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Disrupting Racism and Global Exclusion in Academic Publishing: Recommendations and Resources for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors
Aug 02 2024
In the summer of 2020, following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd in the United States and the ensuing global protests against anti-Black racism led by the Black Lives Matter movement, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial ine
How American Policing Became So Violent
Apr 09 2024
By Jeffrey S. Adler, author of Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police BrutalityThe horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and many other African American citizens have brought increased p
Florida’s Racist African American History Standards Reveal a Long History of Slavery Apologism
Apr 05 2024
By Bayley Marquez, author of Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous SpaceIn the summer of 2023, as I was finishing reviewing the copy edits of my manuscript for Plantation Pedagogy, news sources began reporting on the controversy over Florida’s state standards
How a Project on Utopia Became a Catalogue of Horror
Nov 02 2023
by Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan, co-authors of White Power and American Neoliberal CultureWe didn’t set out to write a catalogue of horror—instead we stumbled upon these sadistic texts of white supremacy glorifying racist violence and terror while working on other projects about neolibera
Join Tanya Maria Golash-Boza for the Before Gentrification Book Tour
Oct 04 2023
“A must-read for those interested in understanding how anti-Black policy decisions drive mass incarceration, gentrification, and dire racial inequality in Washington, DC, and throughout our nation."—Derek Hyra, author of Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino CityBefore Gentrification s
For Other Growing U.S. Cities, Atlanta is a Warning
Aug 01 2022
By Dan Immergluck, author of Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century AtlantaRising home prices and rents are on everyone’s mind these days. In the wake of COVID-19, housing costs rose rapidly in most cities. Yet the U.S. housing crisis is not new, and has been worsenin
Authors Moon-Ho Jung and Nobuko Miyamoto on a Future Beyond Anti-Asian Violence
May 27 2022
For this year's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, our authors reflect on the the verbal and violent hate crimes against AAPI communities, which increased over the last couple years with the outbreak of COVID-19. With these sad events — the recent expressions of a long legacy of racism in the U.
The Muslim Ban Exposes the Racialization of Religion in America
May 27 2021
By Sahar Aziz, author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious FreedomOn his first day in office, President Biden repealed the “Muslim Ban,” an executive order issued by Trump on January 27, 2017. This repeal was a welcome development for the hundreds of thousands of Muslims whose liv
Solidarity and Support for Asian Communities
Mar 12 2021
We are disturbed and horrified to see the escalating violence directed against Asian Americans, in the Bay Area and around the country. These incidents have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and have been encouraged by inflammatory and xenophobic rhetoric. These are not isolated eve
The “Right” Way to Study White Power Groups: The Value of Comparisons
Feb 23 2021
Visit our #ACJS2021 virtual exhibit to get 40% off the book.By Shannon Reid and Matthew Valasik, authors of Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White“What’s past is prologue.” The violent insurrection that transpired following President Trump’s public ranting at the “Save America March'' in