Race and America's Long War

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Cover of the book Race and America's Long War by Nikhil Pal Singh, University of California Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Nikhil Pal Singh ISBN: 9780520968837
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: November 7, 2017
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Nikhil Pal Singh
ISBN: 9780520968837
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: November 7, 2017
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from University of California Press

Cover of the book Embryos in Deep Time by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book How Vertebrates Left the Water by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Taking Baby Steps by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Moses and Multiculturalism by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book The Gender of Memory by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Henry Thoreau by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Charles Burnett by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Lines in the Water by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Art and the Global Economy by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Seeking Refuge by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Unorthodox Kin by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book The Secret World of Doing Nothing by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book At the Jazz Band Ball by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book The Spectacular Favela by Nikhil Pal Singh
Cover of the book Rediscovering America by Nikhil Pal Singh
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy