Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives
traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and …

The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people
have been deported since 1997–twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There …

An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo's favelas revealing the widespread use
of race-based police repression in Brazil While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the …

Author Julia O'Connell Davidson is a leading scholar of modern slavery and is regularly
approached by the media to comment on issues such as prostitution, trafficking, sex tourism …

Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual
harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have …

Generations of social thinkers have assumed that access to legitimate paid employment and
a decline in the 'double standard'would eliminate the reasons behind women's participation …

The changed meaning of the 'body shop', from a section of a car factory–or a garage
knocking wrecks back into shape–to The Body Shop, a chain of stores selling products to …

Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations
soared, the increase in women's rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. As …

In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of
women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the …

With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs,
majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment …