Race and Crime
About the Book Series
The Race and Crime book series offers a groundbreaking collection of focused, accessible volumes that examine the complex intersections of race, crime, and justice in contemporary society. Edited by leading scholars Katheryn Russell-Brown (Northeastern University) and TaLisa Carter (American University), this innovative series addresses both foundational and emerging topics in criminology and sociology. Each volume provides: • Historical context and evolution of key race-related issues • Comprehensive research overviews synthesizing current scholarship • Critical analysis of topics' centrality to criminology and sociology • Contemporary perspectives on pressing social justice concerns • Future directions for research and policy
Marginalities and Mobilities among India’s Muslims: Elusive Citizenship
1st Edition
Edited
By Tanweer Fazal, Divya Vaid, Surinder S. Jodhka
July 19, 2023
This book studies how marginality impacts the everyday lives of Indian Muslims. It challenges the prevailing myths and stereotypes through which Indian Muslims have come to be seen in the popular imagination. The volume engages with questions of citizenship, collective violence, and issues of civil...
Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India
1st Edition
By Salah Punathil
December 18, 2020
This book examines conflict and violence among religious minorities and the implication on the idea of citizenship in contemporary India. Going beyond the usual Hindu-Muslim question, it situates communalism in the context of conflicts between Muslims and Christians. By tracing the long history of ...
Margins of Citizenship: Muslim Experiences in Urban India
1st Edition
By Anasua Chatterjee
October 02, 2019
Part of the ‘Religion and Citizenship’ series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities and consequences of socio-spatial segregation faced by Muslim communities and the various ways in which they negotiate it in the course of their ...
Justice before Reconciliation: Negotiating a ‘New Normal’ in Post-riot Mumbai and Ahmedabad
1st Edition
By Dipankar Gupta
January 20, 2016
The book explores how Muslims in Mumbai and Ahmedabad coped with the aftermath of the violence directed against them in 1993 and 2002 respectively, and how they responded to the ethnic carnages of which they were the victims, highlighting the importance of the context and the history of the place ...
Questioning the ‘Muslim Woman’: Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality
1st Edition
By Nida Kirmani
January 20, 2016
The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated as a homogenous group with a common set of interests. Focusing on the narratives of women living in a predominantly ...
Religion, Community and Development: Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India
1st Edition
Edited
By Gurpreet Mahajan, Surinder S. Jodhka
January 20, 2016
By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (that was submitted to the Prime Minister of India in 2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. While the liberal secular framework privileged the individual over the ...