Sherene H. Razack

Dr. Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in the Department of Gender Studies, UCLA. She is an interdisciplinary critical race and feminist scholar whose work engages several fields including Sociology, Legal Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, American Studies and Political Science.

Nothing Has to Make Sense

Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism

While much has been written about post-9/11 anti-Muslim racism, insufficient attention has been given to how anti-Muslim racism operates through law and is a vital part of law’s protection of whiteness. We may think of law as logical, but, argues Razack, its logic breaks down when the subject is Muslim.

Publications

Dying from Improvement
Race, Space, and the Law
Looking White People in the Eye
Casting Out
Dark Threats & White Knights

Recent Projects

The Racial Violence Hub​

This site creates a virtual community of feminist critical race scholars, artists, activists, and organizations working on issues of racial violence and the state.

Race and Deaths in Custody

It is our hope that in building an archive of deaths in custody, we become better able to develop a critical race and feminist analysis to sustain our political anti-violence projects.

Recent Presentations and Interviews

Palestine and Transnational Feminist Solidarity: Race, Gender and Genocide
Palestine and Transnational Feminist Solidarity: Race, Gender and Genocide
South Africa's Case Against Israel for the Crime of Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza