Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf

Centers the marginalized histories of the rights enacted and claimed by Black peoples, disrupts mainstream accounts about the development of human rights, and considers both the repressive and radical power of rights.

Provides a foundational understanding of the roots, context, and relationship between racism, law, and health inequality. Illustrates how structural racism and law either by design or effect contribute to health inequalities suffered by racialized peoples.

Examines the historical and ongoing connections between colonialism and modern medical experimentation, arguing that global health practices continue to dehumanize and exploit Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized peoples.

Analyzes the International Journal of Transitional Justice's record of addressing race and racism and finds that the explicit discussion and engagement with race and racism has been wanting. Aims to help catalyze the remembering, exposing and reimagining of the role of race and racism in transitional justice and beyond.

Explores the connections, legacies, and important disjunctions between tropical medicine and global public health, arguing that the primacy given to White health is one of the animating purposes behind the emergence of the global public health regime.

Serves as a catalyst for analyzing and reimagining the role of race in national security. Challenges national security orthodoxy and disrupts accepted truths.

Examines how racialized societies assign differing values to an individual or group based on their racial designation and the position within the social hierarchy that their racial categorization implies. 

Argues that infectious diseases typically do not respect borders, posing transnational challenges that require cooperation and action through law. Advocates for a new vision of responsibility based on need, culpability, and capacity to help states cope with the increased incidence of epidemics and better allocate and distribute responsibility.