CENTER FOR “RACE,� CULTURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Book presentation by Professor Margaret Abraham (Department of Sociology) Sociology and Social Justice is a collection of brilliant essays, authored by an international group of respected scholar-activists, examining a variety of concepts and practices of social justice. Margaret Abraham is the former President of the International Sociological Association (August 2014- August 2018). Her research interests include gender, ethnicity, globalization, migration and domestic violence. She is actively engaged in research and activism in the field of domestic violence within the South Asian immigrant community in the United States. She authored and edited books and special volumes: Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence among South Asian Immigrants in the United States (Rutgers UP, 2000); Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and the Practices of Citizenship (Ashgate, 2010); Making a Difference: Linking Research and Action (SAGE, 2012); Interrogating Gender, Violence and the State in National and Transnational Contexts (SAGE, 2016); and Sociology and Social Justice (SAGE, November 24, 2018).