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Seth Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), and Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had their essays published in Wagadu’s special issue on “Race, Resistance, Reason: Contextualizing Racial Epistemologies, Imagining Social Justice.” Asumah’s essay is titled “Race, Immigration Reform, and Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Reframing the Obama Presidency.” Nagel’s submission is “Angela Y Davis and Assata Shakur as Women Outlaws: Resisting U.S. State Violence,” and Zheng submitted “Spousal Violence, Women, and Resistance in Postsocialist China.” Nagel edited the issue and some of its essays were presented at the CGIS conference Race, Resistance, Reason, 2012.