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Book SynopsisOn both a national and global stage we are witnessing a reckoning on issues of racial justice. This historical moment that continues to unfold in the United States and elsewhere also creates an opening to spark and revitalize debate and policy changes on a range of crucial topics, including national security. By surfacing the depths to which White hegemonic power influences our institutions and cultural assumptions, we gain more accurate understanding of how race manifests in national security domestically, transnationally, and globally.In Race and National Security, leading experts challenge conventional interpretations of national security by illuminating the underpinning of White supremacy in our social consciousness. The volume centers the experience of those who have long been on the receiving end of racialized state violence. It finds that re-envisioning national security requires more than just reducing the size and scope of the security state.Contributors offer visions for reforming and transforming national security, including adopting an abolitionist framework. Race and National Security invites us to radically reimagine a world where the security state does not keep Black, Brown, and other marginalized peoples subordinated through threats of and actual incarceration, violence, torture, and death. Race and National Security is a groundbreaking volume which serves as a catalyst for remembering, exposing, and reconceiving the role of race in national security.The Just Security book series from OUP tackles contemporary problems in international law and security that are of interest to a global community of scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and students. With each volume taking a particular thematic focus and gathering leading experts, the series as a whole aims to rigorously and critically reflect on developments in these areas of law, policy, and practice. Each volume will be accompanied by a series of shorter digital pieces in Just Security''s online forum at www.justsecurity.org, which tie the discussion to breaking news and headlines.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors Acknowledgments I. Introduction - Confronting the Color Line in National Security, Matiangai Sirleaf II. Why Race & National Security? 1. Beyond Color-Blind National Security Law, James Gathii 2. "Viral Convergence": Interconnected Pandemics as Portal to Racial Justice, Catherine Powell 3. National Security Law and the Originalist Myth, Aziz Rana III. Race & the Scope of National Security 4. Black Security and the Conundrum of Policing, Monica Bell 5. Carceral Secrecy and (In)Security, Andrea Armstrong 6. The Border Called My Skin, Jaya Ramji-Nogales IV. Race & the Boomerang Effect of National and Transnational Security 7. Militarized Biometric Data Colonialism, Margaret Hu 8. Extending the Logic of Defund to America's Endless Wars, Asli Bâli 9. Extrajudicial Executions from the United States to Palestine, Noura Erakat V. Comparative and International Perspectives on Race & National Security 10. Racial Transitional Justice in the United States, Yuvraj Joshi 11. Black Guilt, White Guilt at the International Criminal Court, Rachel López 12. The UN Cannot Rest on Past Laurels: The Time for Courageous Leadership on Anti-Black Racism is Now, Adelle Blackett VI. Conclusion - Reforming, Transforming and Radically Imagining National Security, Matiangai Sirleaf
