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Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss

How race shapes expectations about whose losses matter

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About the Author

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. 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).

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