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CSREA’s New Book Talks highlight new and notable works studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity. These events facilitate thought-provoking and critical engagement with emerging scholarship.

Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss

Juliet Hooker, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science

In Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, Juliet Hooker argues that the two most important forces driving racial politics in the United States today are Black grief and white grievance. Black grief is exemplified by current protests against police violence—the latest in a tradition of violent death and subsequent public mourning spurring Black political mobilization. The potent politics of white grievance, meanwhile, imagines the United States as a white country under siege. 

About the Author

Juliet Hooker is a political theorist specializing in racial justice, black political thought, Latin American political thought, democratic theory, and contemporary political theory. She has also written on racism and Afro-descendant and indigenous politics in Latin America. 

About the Moderator

Emily A. Owens is the David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History. She researches and teaches about US slavery, the legal history of race and sexual violence, and the intellectual history of American feminisms. She is most interested in the ways that massive cultural, legal and economic systems shape intimate life across different historical moments.