This book would not have seen the light of the day if it had not been for a number of people whom I would like to thank especially beyond my family and my friends. First of all, Angela Harris who introduced me to Critical Race Theory, then also Ruth Rubio-Mar?n, Kendall Thomas, Wojciech Sadurski, and Gianfrancesco Zanetti who have all supported me during the time of my Ph.D. on which this book is based. Second, a number of networks of scholars and activists have also contributed intellectually and inspirationally to this book. Special thanks go to the CRT Europe Group and in particular Kimberlé Crenshaw, Luke Harris and Cengiz Barskanmaz for creating this space in which to analyse issues relating to race and law in Europe; to the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam and in particular Philomena Essed, Stephen Small and Kwame Nimako for introducing a much needed academic visibility of Black European identities; and to REGINE and in particular Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Diane Roman and Marc Pichard for offering me an academic home, support for this book and new intellectual and political adventures. Last but not least, special thanks to Emma Nyhan and the (copy-)editors of Routledge who have turned this book from my terrible English and incoherent ramblings into something that reads like ‘proper’ English and that makes much more sense.