| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 270 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : the long war -- Race, war, and police power -- From war capitalism to race war -- The afterlife of fascism -- Racial formation and permanent war -- The present crisis -- Epilogue : the two Americas |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
african slavery |
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american history |
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far right |
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human rights advocates |
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immigrant relations |
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immigrant studies |
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political climate |
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political science |
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poly sci major |
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racially homogenous |
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racism in the united states |
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religious right |
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us mexico border |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2017) |
| Subject |
Racism -- United States -- History
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National characteristics, American -- History
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Political culture -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Genocide & War Crimes.
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National characteristics, American
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Racism
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017025293 |
| ISBN |
9780520968837 |
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0520968832 |
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