Sherene Razack: 4 books
Dark Threats and White Knights
The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally.
Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture.
The first reports of what became known in Canada...
Dying from Improvement
Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that...
Apartheid in Palestine
Hard Laws and Harder Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
“Of all the crimes to which Palestinians have been subjected through a century of bitter tragedy, perhaps none are more cruel than the silencing of their voices. The suffering has been most extreme, criminal, and grotesque in Gaza, where Ghada Ageel was one of the victims from childhood. This collection...
Casting Out
The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2008
Three stereotypical figures have come to represent the 'war on terror' - the 'dangerous' Muslim man, the 'imperilled' Muslim woman, and the 'civilized' European. Casting Out explores the use of these characterizations in the creation of the myth of the family of democratic Western nations obliged...