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Law, Power, and Race: ICERD, the Global South, and the Promise of Equal Dignity for All"" is for readers who want clear, honest writing about how racism is shaped by law, not just personal bias. This book shows how international human rights law grew from real struggle, how a treaty can change the story we tell about race, and why that change is still unfinished. It explains the ICERD international convention and the UN convention on racism in simple language, turning dry rules into a human story about courage, pressure, and hope. Dominic Savage starts from a basic truth that many books ignore: the fight against racial discrimination in law did not start in the Global North. Newly independent countries in Africa and other regions pushed the United Nations to act. Their pressure helped shape Africa and international law, the global south and the UN, and a whole field of decolonising human rights. The book highlights global south human rights leaders and shows how their work still guides debates on race law and public policy, racism in global governance, and race rights and global power today. Instead of hiding behind complex language, the book walks the reader through human rights treaties explained in everyday terms. It connects history to current fights over policing, racism and rights, migration, borders and race, and colonialism and racial inequality. It looks at structural racism and law in Brazil's policing, the treatment of Black migrants in Tunisia, and the abuse of Kenyan domestic workers abroad. It asks hard questions about legal responses to racism and how courts, activists, unions, and migrant groups can use anti racism and human rights tools that already exist but are often ignored. The book also brings the story up to date by looking at racism and international law in the age of algorithms, online hate, and cross-border deals. It shows how race and world politics are shaped not only by speeches and elections, but also by data systems, secret agreements, and quiet design choices in tech and social media. It links these patterns to global racial justice movements and fresh critical studies of human rights that refuse to separate ""old"" racism from ""new"" forms of control. ""Law, Power, and Race"" is a guide for readers who care about equality and non-discrimination but want more than slogans. It joins the dots between theory and action, between international human rights law classrooms and real people at checkpoints, in detention centres, in workplaces, and on city streets. By the final pages, you will see how law, power and race are tied together, and how global south racial justice ideas offer a path forward.

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