The Just Riot Theory Podcast

Juliet Hooker: Black Lives Matter and Democratic Repair


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Jonathan Havercroft is joined by Juliet Hooker to discuss black protest in the United States and the militaristic response that occured in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. 

Profile: Juliet Hooker is Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science. She 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. Before coming to Brown, she was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009) and Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford, 2017), and editor of

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793615510/Black-and-Indigenous-Resistance-in-the-Americas-From-Multiculturalism-to-Racist-Backlash
Click to follow link." rel="noopener noreferrer">Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash (Lexington Books, 2020). Theorizing Race in the Americas was awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Ralph Bunche Book Award for the best work in ethnic and cultural pluralism and the 2018 Best Book Award of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Her current book, Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, is forthcoming in 2023 from Princeton University Press.

Article: In this episode we discuss her 2016 article in Political Theory, "Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair". The Article can be accessed here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0090591716640314

The Just Riot Theory Podcast is part of the British Academy mid-career fellowship project 'Just and Unjust Riots: a normative assessment of militant protest'. It's produced by Public Engagement with Research Unit at the University of Southampton. Funding for the series was provided by the British Academy.

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