Dr. Sherene Razack: Racial Violence and Settler Colonization

Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Sherene H. Razack as she explores Racial Violence and Settler Colonialism.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Western’s Office of the President, and the Social Science Student Donation Fund.

Sherene H. Razack's research and teaching focus on racial violence. She is the founder of the virtual research and teaching network Racial Violence Hub (RVHub). Formerly a Distinguished Professor of Critical Race and Gender Studies in the Department of Social Justice, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (1991-2016), she relocated to the United States from Canada in 2016.

Sherene H. Razack is of Caribbean (Trinidadian) origin. A feminist critical race scholar, Razack has published six single-authored books and three edited and co-edited collections, as well as over eighty journal articles and book chapters. Her publications illustrate the thematic areas and anti-colonial, anti-racist feminist scholarship she pursues. Her most recent book Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (2015) explores state violence against Indigenous peoples.