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Chapter 2: Boarding The Shadow Fleet: Stateless Vessels In The Law Of The Sea, James Kraska

International Law Studies

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When The Hood Comes Off: Racism And Resistance In The Digital Age, By Rob Eschmann. University Of California Press, 2023. 312 Pages. $24.95. Isbn 978-0520379749, Stephanie M. Ortiz

Journal of Hate Studies

Sociologist Stephanie M. Ortiz reviews Rob Eschmann’s When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age, which examines how the internet reorganizes the conditions under which racism is expressed, with a focus on higher education. This reorganization allows hate to flourish online even as racism is disavowed in public. Online and offline spaces are not disconnected, though, and digital revelations—revealed when “the hood comes off”—shape offline relationships, institutional trust, campus climate, and students’ sense of safety.

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 09.28.26, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• Dean’s Initiative for Leadership and Scholarly Excellence welcomes second cohort to Notre Dame Law School
• Notre Dame Law School professors examine history, tradition, and the future of Establishment Clause litigation
• Professor Stephen Tierney elected fellow of the British Academy

Student News

• Pavithra Rajendran, J.S.D. Candidate

Alumni News

• Devan Patel ‘20 J.D.
• Mary Shepro '15 J.D.

Faculty Briefs

• Dean G. Marcus Cole
• Nicole Stelle Garnett
• Derek Muller
• Emily Bremer
• Rick Garnett
• Mary Ellen O'Connell
• Rick Garnett and Derek Muller
• Fr. Bill Dailey, C.S.C.
• Kimberlie Orr
• Nicole Stelle Garnett and John A. Meiser
• Daniel Slate

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The Fallacies Of Racism: Understanding How Common Perceptions Uphold White Supremacy, By Jennifer Patrice Sims. Polity Press, 2024. 224 Pages. $24.95. Isbn 978-1509553488, Wanda Little Fenimore

Journal of Hate Studies

A scholar of communication, Wanda Little Fenimore reviews Jennifer Patrice Sims’ The Fallacies of Racism: Understanding How Common Perceptions Uphold White Supremacy, which examines twelve fallacies of racist thinking, divided into micro-, meso-, and macrolevel fallacies. Though these fallacies are also used to advance other biases, such classism, sexism, and ableism, Sims’ focus on race shows how fallacious thinking is not merely an individual error but part of an epistemology that upholds White supremacy.

Teaching Objects Of Hate: The Jim Crow Museum Of Racist Memorabilia, Sara Moslener

Journal of Hate Studies

Dr. Sara Moslener interviews Dr. David Pilgrim, founder, curator, and director of the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris University. The Jim Crow Museum is undergoing a major renovation that will allow the museum’s more than 30,000 artifacts to be displayed and cared for. They discuss the place of material culture in teaching about racism, sustainability in anti-hate work, and the changing language of anti-hate education. The Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University will celebrate its grand opening with a special presentation at 1 pm on September 30, followed by a ribbon cutting and self-guided tours. At 10 am on …

Chacahoula 2026, Volume 93, Pawan Khatri, Alayna Pellegrin

Chacahoula

The 2026 issue of Chacahoula, There's No Place Like Home, emphasizes the way in which our university becomes a home to students.  Featuring prize-winning poetry from Allyson Gee, Nick Fredrick, Amaris Kendall and Anmol Subedi, the book includes December 2025 and May 2026 graduating classes, as well as stunning photography of  campus life on the banks of Bayou Desiard. With features covering students, faculty, and staff, this year's time capsule preserves an academic year in the life of the University of Louisiana at Monroe. This edition includes a video message from President Carrie Castille. Download the PDF to your device …

Strange People On The Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart A Small American Town, By Michael Edison Hayden. 320 Pages. $30.00 Isbn 978-1645030607, Thomas F. Schaller

Journal of Hate Studies

Political scientist Tom Schaller reviews Michael Edison Hayden’s Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town. Part memoir and part ethnography, Strange People on the Hill details Hayden’s time as an investigative journalist in Berkley Springs, West Virginia, where the Southern Poverty Law Center tasked him with learning about the purchase of an area castle by Peter Brimelow, the founder of the white nationalist group VDARE, named after Virginia Dare, the first white child born in the Americas, and his wife. Strange People on the Hill chronicles the challenges of working as a journalist …

God’S Angry Men: The Political Legacy Of The John Birch Society, By Carmen Celestini. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 288 Pages. $108.00. Isbn 978-1666973587, Camille Kaminski Lewis

Journal of Hate Studies

Communications studies scholar Camille Kaminski Lewis reviews Carmen Celestini’s God’s Angry Men: The Political Legacy of the John Birch Society, a history of Robert Welch’s anti-Communist organization that relies on extensive archival work. God’s Angry Men focuses on the John Birch Society’s impact on politics, including the 1964 Barry Goldwater campaign, the rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s, and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.

The Legacy Sites: A History Of Racial Injustice, By Equal Justice Initiative. Monacelli, 2026. 280 Pages. $59.95 Isbn 978-1580937320, Roger Davis Gatchet

Journal of Hate Studies

Roger Davis Gatchet, a scholar of communication, reviews The Legacy Sites: A History of Racial Injustice, collectively authored by the Equal Justice Initiative with a forward by founder and executive director Bryan Stevenson. Rich with photographs and written for a popular audience, The Legacy Sites offers an accessible history of race relations and the struggle for racial justice in the United States, organized by chapters devoted to three sites in Montgomery, Alabama: the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice Museum, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. The book’s historical narrative adopts a critical tone that reflects the …

All The Empty Rooms. Produced By Joshua Seftel, Conall Jones, James Costa, And Trevor Burgess; Directed By Joshua Seftel. In English. 2025; Color; 33 Minutes. A Smartypants Production, Distributed By Netflix, Christopher Strain

Journal of Hate Studies

Christopher Strain, an American studies scholar, reviews the Academy Award-winning short documentary All the Empty Rooms. Director Joshua Seftel’s film travels into the bedrooms of American children shot to death at school. Seftel visited children’s families over seven years, profiling in his film four children, ages 9 to 15, documenting the ordinariness of their childhoods before their deaths and the grief of the families they left behind.

Imagining The Possibilities: A Consideration Of Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Tracy Wascom

Journal of Hate Studies

Tracy Wascom reviews Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, a traveling exhibit that refashions books published by a white supremacist group, the Creativity Movement, into art. Books such as The White Man’s Bible and RAHOWA: This Planet is All Ours!, written in the 1980s, were provided to the Montana Human Rights Network by a white supremacist defector. With curator Katie Knight, MHRN then invited artists to repurpose the texts into paintings, sculptures, films, and other artistic investigations of hate. Thirty-eight artists are represented in the current touring exhibit, including Enrique Chagoya, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Jim Riswold, Faith Ringgold, and Clarissa …

Introduction To “Reviews & Interviews”, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Jennifer Schlegel

Journal of Hate Studies

An introduction to the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Hate Studies from Rebecca Barrett-Fox, editorial board chair, and Jennifer Schlegel, managing editor.

Radical Right Ideologues In The Age Of Trump: Heralds Of Nihilism, By Ronald Beiner. Routledge, 2026. 160 Pages. $57.99. Isbn 978-1041126812, Joan Braune

Journal of Hate Studies

Philosopher Joan Braune reviews Ronald Beiner’s Radical Right Ideologues in the Age of Trump: Heralds of Nihilism, which examines how fascist ideologues such as Steve Bannon, Aleksandr Dugin, Jason Jorjani, and Costin Alamariu (known online as “Bronze Age Pervert”), invoke philosophers, including Plato, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, in their arguments. It also considers why traditional philosophy departments have hesitated to acknowledge the use of philosophers in right-wing movements and how Beiner manages the risk of validating fascism as intellectual by studying the topic.

How Small-Town Conspiracists Have Changed The Country: A Review OfDay Of Reckoning And Chaos Comes Calling, Shane Burley

Journal of Hate Studies

Books reviews include:
Day of Reckoning: How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy, by Mike Wendling. Pluto Press, 2024. 192 pages. $21.94. ISBN 978-0745349718.

Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America, by Sasha Abramsky. Bold Type Books, 2024. 288 pages. $30.00. ISBN 978-1645030430.

The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, By Matthew D. Taylor. Broadleaf Books, 2024. 292 Pages. $32.99. Isbn 978-1506497785, Jefferson Calico

Journal of Hate Studies

Jefferson Calico, a scholar of religion, reviews Matthew D. Taylor’s The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, an analysis of how the apostolic and prophetic movement within American Protestantism is reshaping religious politics. Charismatic, both theologically and personally, religious entrepreneurs like Paula White, C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, Sean Feucht, and Dutch Sheets lead market-driven faith-based efforts to undermine democracy. With their emphasis on spectacular displays of spiritual gifts, they often embarrass other Christian nationalists, while the leadership of women and people of color in the movement scandalizes them—yet they are, in …

The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism In Canada, By Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, And Samuel Tanner. Mcgill-Queen’S University Press, 2024. 288 Pages. $29.95. Isbn978-0228022848, Carmen Celestini

Journal of Hate Studies

Carmen Celestini, a scholar of religion, reviews The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada, co-authored by Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, and Samuel Tanner. The Great Right North traces the history of the far right in Canada, mapping hate groups by their relationships to political and social institutions and violence as well as their construction of otherness, thereby revealing how such groups are not insular but are in fact responsive to social phenomena. After defining groups as ultra right, racial right, xenophobic right, anti-state militias, freedom conspiracists, or nostalgic racists, The Great Right North identifies commonalities and differences …

Antiracism As Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, And Help Create A Just World, By Jennifer Harvey. St. Martin’S Press, 2024. 284 Pages. $229.00. Isbn 978-1250286703., Regina Shands Stoltzfus

Journal of Hate Studies

Regina Shands Stoltzfus, a scholar of peace, justice, and conflict studies, reviews Jennifer Harvey’s Antiracism as Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, and Help Create a Just World, which addresses white readers directly, arguing for and providing examples of sustained, everyday antiracist actions that help them overcome shame, fear of backlash, and silence.

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions Of A New Elite, By Musa Al-Gharbi. Princeton University Press, 2024. 432 Pages. $35.00. Isbn 978-069123260, Justin Sprague

Journal of Hate Studies

A scholar of women and gender studies, Justin Sprague reviews Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. Focusing on four “Great Awokenings”—the Great Depression, the introduction of the GI Bill and ensuing counterculture movements of the 1960s, the financial precarity of the 1980s Reagan era, and the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing Occupy Wall Street movement—We Have Never Been Woke highlights the cyclical nature of the ideological/capitalist status quo and peels back the shiny veneer of politically “woke” and ideologically altruistic professionals to reveal how this group upholds a political economy that …

On Antisemitism: A Word In History, By Mark Mazower, Penguin Press, 2025. 274 Pages. $26.56. Isbn 978-0241722909, Beth A. Griech-Polelle

Journal of Hate Studies

Historian Beth A. Griech-Polelle reviews Mark Mazower’s On Antisemitism: A Word in History which explores how the term came emerged in Germany in the last 1800s and how its definition has changed over time and across cultures, including in the US, the USSR, and the Arab world. Mazower considers the roles of geography, Christan and antisemitic Zionism, intellectual and political antisemitism, Nazism, anti-Zionism, imperialism, conspiracy theories, and anti-Israel sentiment in shaping how people have historically understood and do today understand the concept—and how such differences in understanding frustrated efforts to end antisemitism.

Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs To Know, By David Harris. Oxford University Press, 2025. 280 Pages. $18.99. Isbn 978-0197800676, Dov Waxman

Journal of Hate Studies

Political scientist Dov Waxman reviews Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know, authored by David Harris, former chair of the American Jewish Committee. Part of Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know series aimed at general readers, the book provides a basic history of antisemitism through the present, including explaining its relationship to the Holocaust, but it devotes much more attention to what the author alleges is antisemitism on the left, particularly concerning Israel, than to antisemitism on the Far Right, and it fails to engage with or reflect contemporary scholarship on antisemitism.

Man Up: The New Misogyny And The Rise Of Violent Extremism, By Cynthia Miller-Idriss. Princeton University Press, 2025. 344 Pages. $29.95. Isbn: 978-0691257549, Caron E. Gentry

Journal of Hate Studies

Caron E. Gentry, scholar of gender and international relations, reviews Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, which examines the relationship between misogyny, from schoolyard bullying to rape; far-right extremism, including extremist violence; and popular culture. Man Up demonstrates that misogynist thinking underpins wider American culture and that the accompanying entitlement and alienation lead to the violence aligned with far-right extremism in the United States.

Proof, Evidence And Hate Crime: A Study In Criminal Jurisprudence, By Tshepo Bogosi Mosaka. Routledge, 2026. 226 Pages. $150.00 Isbn 978-1032764535, Sachin S. Pandya

Journal of Hate Studies

Legal scholar Sachin S. Pandya reviews Tshepo Bogosi Mosaka’s Proof, Evidence and Hate Crime: A Study in Criminal Jurisprudence. While traditional notions of proof separate fact from value and treat proof as apart from procedural rules and practices and from substantive law, Proof, Evidence, and Hate Crime proposes an applied and context-specific model of proof. Mosaka uses non-contact hate crimes motivated by race, religion, and ethnic bias to explore his ideas.

Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice For Hate Crimes In India, By Sandhya Fuchs. Stanford University Press, 2004. 358 Pages. $32.00. Isbn 978-1503639362, Amarnath Amarasingam

Journal of Hate Studies

A scholar of religion, Amarnath Amarasingam reviews Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India by Sandhya Fuchs. Fragile Hope is an ethnographic study of how justice operates in Dalit communities in Rajasthan in northwest India, particularly how the Prevention of Atrocities Act is both a tool of resistance and a site of disappointment. The book considers the history and conceptual framework of the Atrocities Act (also known as the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act), how instances of caste violence become legal cases, and how survivors seek justice.

Foreign Fighters And The Extreme Right: Tracking Far-Right Volunteers Beyond The Ukraine War, Edited By Daniel Koehler And Miroslav Mareš. Routledge, 2026. 326 Pages. $57.99. Isbn 978-1003186014, Alex Mackenzie

Journal of Hate Studies

Alex MacKenzie, a scholar of politics, reviews Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right: Tracking Far-Right Volunteers Beyond the Ukraine War, edited by Daniel Koehler and Miroslav Mareš. Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right provides a history of foreign fighters, with a focus on the previous hundred years. Methodologically and geographically diverse, the collection includes chapters on the United States, Russia, Germany, Italy, the UK, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe, and Eastern Europe, examining the historical and social context of foreign fighters in each region.

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across The Holy Land, By Aziz Abu Sarah And Maoz Inon. Crown, 2026. 240 Pages. $30.00. Isbn 979-8217086511, Jack Shepherd

Journal of Hate Studies

Jack Shepherd, a scholar of tourism studies, reviews Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon’s The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey across the Holy Land. The authors, a Palestinian and an Israeli, have each lost loved ones to violence in the region where they now work promoting peace through tourism and travel. Organized geographically, The Future is Peace moves through Gaza, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the West Bank, Nazareth, and Galilee, telling the histories and providing political context to help readers understand the conflict there.

Children No More: Were And Are Gone. Produced By Sheila Nevins, Yael Melamede And Hilla Medalia; Directed By Hilla Medalia. English. 2026; Color; 36 Minutes. Full Story Films, Medalia Productions, And Salty Features, Muzna Rahman

Journal of Hate Studies

Postcolonial studies scholar Muzna Rahman reviews Children No More: Were and Are Gone, Hilla Medalia’s Academy Award-nominated short documentary. The film documents pro-peace Israeli activists who gather regularly in Tel Avivi to hold a silent vigil for Palestinian children killed by Israel forces. Against the backdrop of everyday urban life, the protestors simply hold photos of the children, commemorating their lives rather than their brutal deaths. The images of Palestinian children held by Israeli activities highlights the similarities between the groups, while the rage of passersby reveals the danger that Israelis who advocate for peace face in their work.

The Voice Of Hind Rajab. Produced By Nadim Cheikhrouha, Odessa Rae, And James Wilson; Directed By Kaouther Ben Hania. In Arabic. 2025; Color; 89 Minutes. A Mime Films And Tanit Films Production, Distributed By Jour2fête, Amahl Bishara

Journal of Hate Studies

Anthropologist Amahl Bishara reviews the film The Voice of Hind Rajab, which was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. The docudrama tells the true story of a young Palestinian child whose family car is attacked by Israeli soldiers while the family attempts to evacuate from their town in northern Gaza. Trapped in the car with her five deceased loved ones, little Hind is the object of an attempted—and eventually failed--rescue by the Red Crescent Society. Using real footage, The Voice of Hind Rajab tells not the story of one child’s final hours but of …

A Conversation About Four For Gideon With Michael Schachter, Michael Beckerman

Journal of Hate Studies

Four for Gideon, composed by American Michael Schachter, is a new setting for four Czech and Polish folk songs, with tunes previously arranged by Gideon Klein (1919–1945) during his imprisonment in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto, a concentration camp in the present-day Czech Republic. Klein served as a music director there before being transferred to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. Four for Gideon was commissioned by the Standford Eisenberg Jewish Day School in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was premiered by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (Aram Demirjian, music director) on March 5, 2025, in a performance in honor of Violins of Hope, …

Sharing Their Journey: A Conversation With Aziz Abu Sarah And Maoz Inon, Laura Morlock

Journal of Hate Studies

Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, a Palestinian and an Israeli, have both lost loved ones to violence. Together, they advocate for peace. Interviewer Laura Morlock speaks with them about their shared journey, including the difficulties they face, how they handle criticism, and the validity of anger.

On Christian Nationalism: Critical And Theological Perspectives, Edited By David M. Gides And Joan Braune. Routledge, 2026. Routledge Studies In Fascism And The Far Right. 406 Pages. $46.39 Isbn 978-1032805665, Kim Shively

Journal of Hate Studies

Anthropologist Kim Shively reviews On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives, edited by David M. Gides, a theologian, and Joan Braune, a philosopher. Nineteen authors contribute essays on four topics: defining Christian nationalism, trends in the United States, international and comparative analyses, and theological responses to Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is a platform for grievance, the contributors argue, and the theme of loss runs throughout the book: nostalgia for an imagined social history and loss or perceived loss of White privilege, with its attendant racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, and homophobia.