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Book SynopsisDonald 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 Warexamines the relationship between war, politics, police power, and the changing contours of race and racism in the contemporary United States. Nikhil PalSinghargues that the United States' pursuit of war since theSeptember 11terrorist 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 capita
Trade Review“...[
Race and America's Long War contains] a wealth of ideas that are vitally important to understanding the current sociopolitical moment.” * Pasatiempo *
“The components of this story have been told separately elsewhere; Singh’s achievement is to synthesize a broad swathe of scholarship into a singular sweeping argument. . . .
Race and America’s Long War effectively consolidates the existing scholarship on racial capitalism and opens up new avenues of exploration in connecting racism and war. For these reasons, it is a remarkable work.” * Race & Class *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Long War
1. Race, War, Police
2. From War Capitalism to Race War
3. The Afterlife of Fascism
4. Racial Formation and Permanent War
5. The Present Crisis
Epilogue: The Two Americas
Notes
Index
