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.
General
Imprint: |
University of California Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2019 |
Authors: |
Nikhil Pal. Singh
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Dimensions: |
203 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-31830-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
LSN: |
0-520-31830-7 |
Barcode: |
9780520318304 |
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