Lisa Rabin
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Suzanne E. Smith
Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit
CHSS faculty across departments are engaging in research in areas of racial and social justice, from studying the effects of standardized testing on minority populations in elementary schools, to digging deeper into important pop culture movements in Black and brown communities. This is but a sampling of the works of our faculty. For further information on their publications, please visit their bios on their department webpages.
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Lisa Rabin
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Suzanne E. Smith
Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit
LaNitra Berger
Social Justice and International Education: Research, Practice, Perspectives; editor
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Jennifer Leeman & Ellen Serafini
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Jennifer Leeman
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Blake Silver
The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses
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Adam Winsler
Stephen M Robertson
“Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s”
Cher Weixia Chen
“Burnout in Social Justice and Human Rights (SJHR) Activists: Symptoms, Causes, and Implications."
“Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm to Protect the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."
Christy Pichichero
“Critical Race Studies and the Multicultural French Enlightenment": forthcoming 2020
"Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World Today" Part I; co-editor
"Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World Today" Part II; co-editor
"Addressing Structural Racism in French History and French Historical Studies"
Jennifer Leeman
Devon Johnson
Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System
"Race and Perceptions of Police: Experimental Results on the Impact of Procedural (in)Justice"
"Striking Out: Race and Support for Police Use of Force"
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Cynthia Lum & Christopher Koper
Editors in Chief of the flagship policy journal of the American Society of Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy. A special issue will be released in November on “Tackling Disparity in the Criminal Justice System”.
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Cynthia Lum
“Repairing the fractured foundations of the police: An appeal to police leaders.”
“Violence, Drug Markets and Racial Composition: Challenging Stereotypes through Spatial Analysis.”
“The Influence of Places on Police Decision Pathways: From Call for Service to Arrest”
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Allison Redlich
"Racial/ethnic disparities in behavioral health service usage in mental health courts."
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Laurie Robinson
President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Report
See also: the George Mason University evidence-assessment of this report here
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Alex Tabarrok and Thomas Stratmann
"To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement."
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Jessica Hurley
"An Apocalypse is a Relative Thing: An Interview with N.K. Jemisin"
"History is What Bites: Race, Zombies, and the Limits of Biopower"
"Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée"
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Stefan M. Wheelock
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Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pérez
“Feminismo, traducción cultural y traición en Malinche de Laura Esquivel”
“Marjorie Agosín’s Poetics of Memory: Human Rights, Feminism, and Literary Forms.”