Racism by Context
The lived experience of racism, for individuals and groups, involves the cumulative and connected impacts of racism operating from systemic and structural to overt and interpersonal levels across all social spheres, within contexts that carry the legacies of historical racism, often over centuries, and usually tightly interwoven with factors such as gender and class. Racism by Context explores this layered and multidimensional nature of racism through its structure of linked sections, each of which focuses on racism in a particular sphere (such as politics and government, labour and economy, education, the arts and culture, health and welfare), each distinct but overlapping in scope with others, and interdisciplinary in its content. We believe this is the first time such a systematic, integrated work exploring systemic, structural, and overt racism across social spheres has been attempted.
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Sections
General Editor
Meena Dhanda
Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics
University of Wolverhampton, UK
Meena Dhanda is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. A leading scholar on caste and identity, focussing on casteism as a form of racism, her research as a socially engaged political philosopher is transdisciplinary. She explores intersectionalities of caste, class, gender, and race, drawing attention to the injustices and prejudices experienced by groups lacking power. She is the author of The Negotiation of Personal Identity, and editor of Reservations for Women. She is co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies and writing Caste: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University Press.
Advisory Board
Neil Chakraborti
Professor of Criminology, Director of Centre for Hate Studies
University of Leicester, UK
Rosinka Chaudhuri
Professor of Cultural Studies and Director
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India
Lewis Gordon
Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy
University of Connecticut, US
Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Associate Professor of Global Development and Political Science
University of Toronto, Canada
Nadia Y. Kim
Professor of Sociology
Texas A&M University, US
Kelly Mack
Vice-President for Undergraduate STEM Education and Executive Director of Project Kaleidoscope, Association of American Colleges and Universities
Association of American Colleges and Universities, US
Olivette Otele
Distinguished Research Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery
SOAS University of London, UK
Yin Paradies
Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Race Relations
Deakin University, Australia
David Wilkins
E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies
University of Richmond, US
Section Editor: Academia and Education
Dina Kiwan
Professor in Comparative Education and Deputy Director for Research and Knowledge Transfer in the College of Social Sciences
University of Birmingham, UK
Dina Kiwan is Professor in Comparative Education and Deputy Director for Research and Knowledge Transfer in the College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. Her interests centre around sociological and politico-philosophical examinations of inclusive citizenship through the lens of education policy, naturalisation policy, and migration policy, in particular in the context of pluralist/multicultural societies and societies in conflict. Professor Kiwan currently leads the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) AHRC Network Plus Disability Under Siege programme (£2M; 2020-2025), working with partners in Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine to address the challenge that most children with disabilities never go to school. She is the author of Academic Freedom and the Transnational Production of Knowledge (CUP, 2024).
Section Editors: Art and Culture
Pablo Mukherjee
Professor of Anglophone World-Literature
University of Oxford, UK
Pablo Mukherjee, FBA, is Professor of Anglophone World-Literature at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK. Professor Mukherjee’s research involves four inter-related fields – colonial and postcolonial literatures, environmental humanities, world-literary studies, and Victorian studies. His books include Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and Contemporary Indian Novel in English.
Ranka Primorac
Associate Professor of African Literature
University of Southampton, UK
Ranka Primorac is Associate Professor of African Literature at the Department of English, University of Southampton, UK. Her research is focused on African literatures and cultures, especially the African novel in English. Dr Primorac is the author of The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe. She co-edits the Boydell and Brewer monograph series African Articulations.
Paulo de Medeiros
Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literature
University of Warwick, UK
Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literature and Head of the English and Comparative Literary Studies Department, University of Warwick, UK. Professor de Medeiros’ research interests include Critical Theory, World Literatures, Modernism and Postcolonial Studies, and Lusophone Literatures and Film. His books include Pessoa’s Geometry of the Abyss: Modernity and the Book of Disquiet.
Section Editors: Gender, Body, and Relationships
Sweta Rajan-Rankin
Reader at the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research
University of Kent, UK
Sweta Rajan-Rankin is Reader at the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research at the University of Kent, UK. Dr Rajan-Rankin is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, artist, ethnographer, and critical and radical social worker. Her research interests centre around materialising racialised affects, connecting systemic racism and embodied experiences in everyday life, critical geographies, memory and homemaking, and ageing and migration. She has been the national level co-convenor of the BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group and is currently a General Editor for the Sociological Review.
Aisha Phoenix
Lecturer in Social Justice
King’s College London, UK
Aisha Phoenix is Lecturer in Social Justice at King’s College London, UK, and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow researching ‘Understanding Colourism Among Young People in the UK.’ Dr Phoenix’s research interests focus primarily on racialised identities and belonging and issues related to social justice, including: colourism and anti-Muslim racism. She is a co-author of Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain.
Section Editor: Health and Welfare
Keon Gilbert
Professor of Behavioral Science and Health Equity
Saint Louis University, US
Keon Gilbert is Professor of Behavioral Science and Health Equity in the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University, US. His research interests include social capital, health disparities, African American men’s health, health promotion, and disease prevention interventions for chronic diseases. His work focuses on the interconnections of racial identity, socialization, and institutional racism as factors in African American male health and wellness over time. Professor Gilbert is the co-author of ‘Missed Opportunity? Leveraging Mobile Technology to Reduce Racial Health Disparities’ in the Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, and ‘Visible and Invisible Trends in African American Men’s Health: Pitfalls and Promises for Addressing Inequalities’ in the Annual Review of Public Health.
Section Editor: Labour and the Economy
Beverley Mullings
Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning
University of Toronto, Canada
Beverley Mullings is Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include racial capitalism, labour geographies, and Black radical traditions, and she explores how transformations in the value of work, the emergence of new urban governance regimes, and the growing financialization of everyday life are shifting the terrain of struggle of historically devalued and dispossessed populations.
Section Editors: Legacy and Memory
Sam Opondo
Associate Professor in Political Science and Africana Studies
Vassar College, US
Sam Okoth Opondo is Associate Professor in Political Science and Africana Studies at Vassar College, New York. He has written journal articles and book chapters on the often-overlooked amateur diplomacies of everyday life, humanitarianism, postcolonial cities, race and the mediation of estrangement, the politics of genre and cultural translation in Africa. He is the author of Diplomatic Para-citations: Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Co-habitation (Rowman & Littlefield 2022) and co-edited (with Michael J. Shapiro) The New Violent Cartography: Geo-Analysis After the Aesthetic Turn (Routledge, 2012).
Ali Meghji
Associate Professor in Social Inequalities
University of Cambridge, UK
Ali Meghji is Associate Professor in Social Inequalities at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include decolonial thought, critical race theory, and the sociology of knowledge, and he puts critical race theory into dialogue with postcolonial sociology in order to understand the global dynamics of racialization and racism. His books include A secret synergy: race, decoloniality, and world crises.
Section Editors: Media, Entertainment, and Sport
Shakuntala Banaji
Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change
London School of Economics, UK
Shakuntala Banaji is Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her research addresses the intersection between socio-political contexts, media, identities, and participation, focusing on young people in different geographical and class contexts, and current issues of disinformation and hate speech. She is co-author of Social Media and Hate.
Janelle Joseph
Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Sport Management
Brock University, Canada
Janelle Joseph is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University. Dr. Joseph is an internationally recognized and award-winning storyteller and scholar committed to disseminating knowledge about racial justice, health, and sport. Dr Joseph is the Founder and Director of the IDEAS Research Lab, which focuses on Indigeneity, Diaspora, Equity, and Anti-racism in Sport. With nation-leading scholarship, including over $4 million in research grant funding, over 50 articles and book chapters, and three books related to social justice, Dr. Joseph works on scholarship and activism devoted to removing the structural, cultural, and administrative barriers that currently shape movement cultures, leisure, and sport. Dr. Joseph’s work is situated at the intersection of Black Studies, Health Sciences, and Sport Management to enable storytelling about uninhibited joy, abiding colonialism, and steadfast resistance of racialized peoples.
Section Editor: Place and the Environment
Patricia Daley
Professor of the Human Geography of Africa at the School of Geography and the Environment
University of Oxford, UK
Patricia Daley is Professor of the Human Geography of Africa at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include geographies of racialization and coloniality, migration and settlement, and the relationship between conservation, resource extraction, and rural livelihoods, focusing especially on East and Central Africa and the UK. She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations and the co-author, with Amber Murrey, of Learning Disobedience: Decolonizing Development Studies.
Section Editor: Police and Criminal Justice
Delores Jones-Brown
Dudley E. Flood Endowed Distinguished Professor and Professor Emerita in Criminal Justice Doctoral Program
Fayetteville State University and City University of New York, US
Delores Jones-Brown is a Dudley E. Flood Endowed Distinguished Professor at the Fayetteville State University. She is retired from the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, (CUNY), US, and founding director of the John Jay College Center on Race, Crime, and Justice. She was formerly a visiting professor at Howard University in Washington, DC. Her research areas include race, crime and the administration of justice, police-community relations, juvenile justice, and the legal socialization of adolescent males. She is the author of the award-winning book Race, Crime and Punishment.
Section Editors: Politics and Government
Meena Dhanda
Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics
University of Wolverhampton, UK
Meena Dhanda is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. A leading scholar on caste and identity, focussing on casteism as a form of racism, her research as a socially engaged political philosopher is transdisciplinary. She explores intersectionalities of caste, class, gender, and race, drawing attention to the injustices and prejudices experienced by groups lacking power. She is the author of The Negotiation of Personal Identity, and editor of Reservations for Women.
Nadia Brown
Professor of Government
Georgetown University, US
Nadia E. Brown is Professor of Government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and affiliate in the African American Studies program, Georgetown University, US. She specializes in Black women’s politics and her scholarship on intersectionality seeks to push beyond disciplinary constraints to think more holistically about the politics of identity. Her books include Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making.
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata
Associate Professor
University of San Francisco, US
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata (Yak Tityu Tityu Northern Chumash and Yokut) is Associate Professor in the Politics Department at the University of San Francisco, US. Her research interests include American Indian politics and political theory, self-determination, and Indigenous sovereignty.
Section Editors: The Sciences, Medicine, and Technology
Ebony McGee
Professor
Johns Hopkins University, US
Ebony McGee is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, US. She studies how racialized biases in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics impact graduate and career pathways for high-achieving, historically marginalized students. She is particularly interested in how racialized stereotypes negatively affect the social, economic, and health outcomes of high-achieving Black students.
Evelynn Hammonds
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science
Harvard University, US
Evelynn Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University, US. Her research areas include the histories of science, medicine, and public health in the United States; race, gender, and sexuality in science studies; and feminist theory and African American history. Her works include The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics.
Thema Monroe-White
Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Policy
George Mason University, US
Thema Monroe-White is Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government and Department of Computer Science (joint) at George Mason University, US. She examines the educational, workforce and entrepreneurial pathways of racially minoritized groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Her research is particularly concerned with achieving algorithmic and socioeconomic justice for minoritized groups via critical artificial intelligence (AI) and data literacy.
