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Race and America's long war

Title
Race and America's long war / Nikhil Pal Singh.
Author
Singh, Nikhil Pal
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Description
xx, 270 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"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 around the world. 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, frequently blurring the boundaries between the two. America's territorial expansion and Indian removals, settler in-migration and nativist restriction, 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 essays show how the return of racism and war as seemingly permanent features of American public and political life is at the heart of the present crisis and collective disorientation."--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Racism > United States > History
  • National characteristics, American > History
  • Political culture > United States > History
  • National characteristics, American
  • Political culture
  • Politics and government
  • Racism
  • Social conditions
  • United States > Social conditions
  • United States > Politics and government
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-235) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the long war -- Race, war, police -- From war capitalism to race war -- The afterlife of fascism -- Racial formation and permanent war -- The present crisis -- Epilogue : the two Americas.
Call Number
JFD 17-5952
ISBN
  • 9780520296251
  • 0520296257
LCCN
2017023301
OCLC
981164296
Author
Singh, Nikhil Pal, author.
Title
Race and America's long war / Nikhil Pal Singh.
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-235) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 17-5952
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