Race and Justice

Race and Justice: An International Journal serves as a quarterly forum for the best scholarship on race, ethnicity, and justice. The journal seeks to engage and promote progressive means of thinking by publishing articles from diverse, inclusive, and intersectional perspectives, theories, methodologies, and ways of knowing. Originally founded in 2011 to highlight policy-oriented papers that examine how race/ethnicity intersects with justice system outcomes across the globe, the journal has evolved and expanded to champion perspectives that examine the construction, as well as deconstruction, of racialized normative beliefs, perspectives, institutions, and structures, from individual identities to state violence.

Specifically, Race and Justice seeks research that does more than treat race as a control variable or makes comparisons between racial and ethnic groups but examines factors through a lens that centers racialized lived experiences and the role of a stratified social structure (particularly racism) as related to criminal behaviors, deviance, violence, victimization, and entanglement with the criminal legal system and other crime-producing institutions.

The journal also seeks intersectional and inclusive scholarship that highlights varied and multiple identities and statuses including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, nativity, age, religion, gender identity, sexuality, class, ability, non-orthodox identities and experiences, as well as diverse places and spaces. The main focus of the journal is empirical research and theory, but also the promotion of equitable and inclusive polices and evolving best praxis. Thus, the journal is open to scholarship from all disciplinary origins and methodological approaches (qualitative and/or quantitative). Research notes that present novel empirical findings as well as short theoretical commentaries are also welcomed.

In addition to publishing journal articles, Race and Justice serves as a central forum for book reviews. RAJ accepts solicited book reviews only.

Please contact our Book Review Editor, Toniqua Mikell (tmikell@umassd.edu) for additional information about the book review process.

Please send books to be reviewed to Dr. Mikell and/or Dr. Isom at:

Race and Justice: An International Journal c/o Dr. Toniqua Mikell Crime & Justice Studies Department University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Liberal Arts Building, Room 399C North Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747

Race and Justice: An International Journal c/o Dr. Deena Isom Department of African American Studies University of South Carolina 817 Henderson Street 256 Gambrell Hall Columbia, South Carolina 29208

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/raj