Description: "From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America"--
Brief description: Debra Thompson is an associate professor of political science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is an internationally recognized, award-winning scholar of the politics of race and holds a Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, and taught in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University before moving to the University of Oregon to help build its Black Studies program. She is the author of The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census, which received three major awards from the American Political Science Association. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and is a regular commentator in print and on television on the state of race and racism in Canada and the United States. Connect with her on Twitter @DebThompsonPhD.
Review Quotes: "With the dual scalpels of academic training and personal experience, Debra Thompson cuts through the veneer of nationalistic self-delusion to produce an honest and uncompromising account of how racism slips and mutates across borders. But in this act of necessary excavation, Thompson also finds so many wellsprings of community, bonding, and joy."
-- OMAR EL AKKAD, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of What Strange Paradise