Michelle Christian is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

"This is a timely book, given the US government's recent bans on programs pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion.... Recommended." --B. Agozino, CHOICE

"Global Journey of Racism is a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and brilliant meditation on the world's racist empire building that left generations of colonized people to struggle against its various manifestations of racial systems and white supremacy. Michelle Christian's journey will certainly spark conversation and controversy and challenge us to divest in whiteness and support solidarity for decolonial movements around the world." --Mary Romero, author of Introducing Intersectionality

"Michelle Christian's book is a foundational text - providing a roadmap to understanding the making of our world vis-à-vis race and its myriad consequences and implications. This book is truly global, including analyses of societies as varied as South Africa, Ireland, and Japan. Christian successfully crafts this book as an invitation, pushing us to think in new ways. It is destined to be an impactful and well-cited book." --Jean Beaman, CUNY Graduate Center

"With clear and lyrical prose, Christian deftly weaves together a deep and expansive landscape of scholarship to develop a global theory of racism on a 'planetary' scale: how it is forged, reproduced, diffused, transformed, and contested." --Hajar Yazdiha, Social Forces

"Christian's labors do, and meritoriously so, reach rare equilibrium between structure and agency.... She should be applauded for presenting a work that both demonstrates how the 'ideological wheels of the global racial system keep assuredly turning', but that concurrently, 'vital counterknowledges, disruption points, and refusal also never abate'." --Matthew W. Hughey, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Pub date: 2025-07-01

Length: 348 pages