Black lives matter

Highlighted publications

The publications featured on this page, curated for Black History Month 2025, include research from disciplines such as sociology, public health, history and law. They examine systemic racism, health disparities and social injustice as they affect Black communities, contributing to more equitable outcomes and supporting SDG 10 ‘Reduced Inequalities’.

Highlighted book chapters

The Survival of Franco-Arab Colonization in Chad: The Gordian Knot of Linguistic Policies

from The Palgrave Handbook of Language Policies in Africa

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Linguistic Freedom, Justice, Democracy and Inequality: Do We Need a Standard?

from Communication, Meaning and Misconceptions

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Ideologies of Colonial-Apartheid Linguistic Order

from The Sociolinguistics of South African Television

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

The Abolition of the Death Penalty and the Execution of Africans for Drug Offenses in Asia

from The Palgrave Handbook on Decoloniality in Asia

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Haitian Migration and Structural Racism in Brazil

from The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Dis-Placing White Supremacy: Intersections of Black and Indigenous Struggles in the Removal of the Roosevelt Statue at the American Museum of Natural History

from The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Forgotten Sociology of Morality: Contesting the Foundations and Informing the Future of the Sociology of Morality

from Social Theorists of Morality

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

A Decolonial and Social Justice Reading of the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter Cyber Protest: Or When Black Lives Should Matter to Our Selves

from Reading Justice Claims on Social Media

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

The Riches of Embarrassment

from The Groovology of White Affect

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Highlighted journals

Highlighted Collections

Special Issue: Race, Racism, and Racialization in Mathematics Education: Global Perspectives (from Educational Studies in Mathematics)

Topical Collection on Racism, Equity and Disparities in Trauma (Current Trauma Reports)

Race, Ethnicity and Child Maltreatment (International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collection (Journal of General Internal Medicine)

Teach Truth: Critical Race Possibilities for Liberatory Classroom Practices (The Urban Review)

The Inclusion of Age-diverse Workers in the Modern Workplace (Journal of Business and Psychology)

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