Race and Deaths in Custody

We invite users to consider these deaths in custody as racial violence. This website, intended for activists, scholars, teachers and students, promotes a critical race analysis that informs, as it highlights, resistance. Deaths in custody, when considered in terms of who dies and how often, unmistakably present a systematized and racialized system of what Zygmant Bauman described (for refugee deaths) as waste disposal: regular police shootings of Black and Indigenous men and women; the disproportionate deaths of Indigenous people and refugees in detention either from neglect or excessive use of force; in nearly all cases, a profound lack of state or official accountability. To see these deaths as a single, broad, multi-faceted and interconnected phenomenon of the disposability of racialized surplus populations requires making a case for its systematized, racial and global underpinnings.

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Dr. Sherene Razack, Penny Kanner Endowed Chair at UCLA


Distinguished Professor

The Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies in the Department of Gender Studies, University of California at Los Angeles

Areas of Focus

Race, Gender and Disposability, Anti-Muslim Racism, Imperialism, Torture and Terror, Sexual Violence, Race, Space and Citizenship, Interlocking Systems of Oppression, Critical Race Feminism

Teaching Racial Violence

Courses taught include: Race, Gender and Space: Research Methodologies, Racial Violence and Terror, and the Doctoral Round Table: Mobilizing Memory in Struggles Against Racism

Publications

Dr. Razack has published six single-authored books and three edited and co-edited collections, as well as over eighty journal articles and book chapters.

Los Angeles, California

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