Sherene H. Razack

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. With a central focus on racial violence, she explores how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy interlock to produce and sustain a racially structured world where racialized populations are marked as disposable and subjected to an unrelenting violence. She is the founder of the Racial Violence Hub, a virtual network of scholars (Racialviolencehub.com). Her books and publications examine settler colonialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and global white supremacy with a particular focus on the gendered effects of anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, anti-Asian and anti-Muslim racism as they operate in law. Her two most recent books are: Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism (2022) and Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (2015).

She has also authored or edited the following:

• 2014 
  • Co-editor with Suvendrini Perera. At The Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
• 2010
  • Co-editor with Malinda Smith and Sunera Thobani. States of Race: Critical Race feminism for the 21^st Century. Toronto: Between the Lines.
•  2008, 2009
  • Casting Out: Race and the Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• 2011
  • La Chasse Aux Musulmans. Evincer Les Musulmans de L’Espace Politique. Montreal: Lux Editeur. [French translation of Casting Out including a preface to the French edition.]
•  2004
  • Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping and the New Imperialism. University of Toronto Press.
•  2002, Editor
  • Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a white settler society. Toronto: Between the Lines.
• 1998, 1999, 2001, 2006
  • Looking white people in the eye: gender, race and culture in courtrooms and classrooms. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• 1991
  • Canadian feminism and the law: The women’s legal education and action fund and the pursuit of equality. Toronto: Second Story Press