Abstract:

This paper explores the continuing relevance of US traditions of racial nationalism to the on-going development and deployment of US state violence inthe world today. Though US militarism is marketed and advanced on the grounds of "securing our freedoms," this paper argues that it depends upon the renovation of imaginations of and modes for containing alleged civil incapacity and civil threat that find their legal and cultural precedence in histories of racial slavery, settler colonialism and fascism.

Suggested Background Readings

Singh, Nikhil P. "Chapter 1: Rethinking Race and Nation." Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. (Harvard, 2004)

Gregory, Derek. "Chapter 4: Civilization and Barbarism." The Colonial Present . (Blackwell, 2004)