Race and America's Long WarUniv of California Press, 7 nov. 2017 - 296 pages Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here. Race and America’s Long War examines the relationship between war, politics, police power, and the changing contours of race and racism in the contemporary United States. Nikhil Pal Singh argues that the United States’ pursuit of war since the September 11 terrorist attacks has reanimated a longer history of imperial statecraft that segregated and eliminated enemies both within and overseas. America’s territorial expansion and Indian removals, settler in-migration and nativist restriction, and African slavery and its afterlives were formative social and political processes that drove the rise of the United States as a capitalist world power long before the onset of globalization. Spanning the course of U.S. history, these crucial essays show how the return of racism and war as seemingly permanent features of American public and political life is at the heart of our present crisis and collective disorientation. |
Table des matières
| 1 | |
1 Race War Police | 35 |
2 From War Capitalism to Race War | 74 |
3 The Afterlife of Fascism | 98 |
4 Racial Formation and Permanent War | 123 |
5 The Present Crisis | 152 |
The Two Americas | 178 |
Notes | 191 |
| 237 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
accessed May 23 accumulation African American American argued Bannon Barack Obama biopolitical Bush Cambridge capitalism capitalist civil rights claims cold cold war constitution counterinsurgency crime criminal crisis Culture defense defined democracy democratic differentiation discourse domestic domination economic election emerged empire enemy expansion fascism force foreign forms freedom frontier Gopal Balakrishnan Harvard University Press human ideological immigration imperial Incarceration Indian institutions intellectual Iraq John Lewis Gaddis kill liberal linked Marx ment modern moral Muslim national security Nazi neoliberal normative Obama overseas police power political population prison production protection quoted race Racial Formation racial orders racism regime relations Schmitt Settler Colonialism slave slavery social society sovereign sovereignty struggle terror terrorist threat tion torture Trump U.S. military United Vietnam violence W. E. B. Du Bois wage labor war on terror wars white supremacy World War II writes York