The argument's tight, the tone's polite, but the critique this book offers is scathing. Murib calls out the exclusionary politics of 'rightful citizen claims' advanced by minority populations that do little more than secure the blessings of provisional belonging for the most normative and privileged of their members. It invites us to move beyond a liberal politics of inclusion towards a more fundamental sense of living fairly and freely amidst all of our differences-and helps guide us toward that goal.
Zein Murib is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University. Their research and teaching interests are located at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality; interest groups and social movements; and American politics. Their scholarship has been published in Politics & Gender; Laws; Signs; and Politics, Groups, and Identities.