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Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2016) Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Abstract

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary legal knowledge practices and colonial systems of thought, arguing that many people of colour experience the law as a part of a racial problem, rather than a solution, to racial injustice. Based on a critical legal ethnography of anti-racism work in Europe, and with an emphasis on the German context, the book positions Black and anti-racist perspectives at the centre, rather than the margins, of critically thinking through the intersection of race and law. Combining this ethnography with comparative legal analysis, discourse analysis and critical race theory, the book develops a critical discussion of the European legal frameworks aimed at regulating racism, and particularly institutional racism, in policy and policing. In linking this critique to the transformative potential of social movements, however, it goes on to examine the strategic and creative possibility of disrupting conventional modes of engaging, and resisting, law.

Item Type: Authored Books
Keywords: Europe; Race; State Violence; Germany; Black German; Policing, Ethnography; Courtroom Ethnography; Racial Profiling
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of Law
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
K Law > KJ Europe
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
H Social Sciences
K Law
ISBN: 9781138649361
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315625867
Date Deposited: 11 Apr 2023 08:53
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/39277

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