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This course addresses how racial violence operates in the project of statecraft in settler societies. Our course analyzes the multiple registers and scales of racial violence by addressing the construction and maintenance of social, political, legal and geographic/physical boundaries in such societies. Our course considers the use of carceral spaces/criminalization in the making of the nation-state and attends to the ways in which settler colonialism is a sexed, gendered, and sexualized project.
The resources below represent only a small selection of materials available on racial violence and resistance in settler societies. This selection was curated to help students fulfill course requirements and, as a result, emphasizes primary documents and legal discourses available in english. Both open access resources and closed access databases are provided below. Users should be aware that materials document and illustrate racial violence, terror, and death and may include disturbing materials and images of racial violence.
It is our hope that in developing a rigorous understanding of the role of racial violence in settler society, we can also develop a critical race and feminist analysis to sustain political anti-violence projects.
The Racial Violence Hub and Race and Deaths in Custody are projects of Dr. Sherene H. Razack, the UCLA Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies.
Includes 2500 legal journals, the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
Complete text of articles from 1959 to the present from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news, culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish.
Searchable books, serials, manuscripts, court records, and reference publications. Access available for parts 1-4: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, The Institution of Slavery, and The Age of Emancipation.
Full text publications focusing on the impact of gender across multiple subject areas. Include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and more.
Online portal with full text books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements from the 20th century to the present. The purchase of LGBT Thought and Culture was made possible through a generous gift from the David Bohnett Foundation.
A growing open access collection drawn from special collection libraries and archives, including fliers, pamphlets, newsletters, campaign materials, protest literature, clippings, periodicals, bulletins, letters, press releases, and other ephemera. Will cover a range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States.