Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss
How race shapes expectations about whose losses matter
Juliet Hooker
Juliet Hooker is the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University and author of the newly released book Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (Princeton University Press, 2023), which was named one of the best books of 2023 in the social sciences by Library Journal and a Finalist for the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers. She is also the author of Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford, 2017), Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009), and editor of Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash (Lexington Books, 2020).