Please join the Mentoring Future Faculty of Color Project on Friday, March 28 at 2:00pm (CUNY Graduate Center, Room 4406) for a talk by NIKHIL PAL SINGH (NYU) Race, Crime and Police Power in the Making of US Empire This talk considers the historical importance of racialized criminality (and criminalized racial difference) within US imperial culture. It specifically examines how historical precedents of slave crime and native crime are foundational to the development of American legal thinking and security regimes built upon expansive conceptions (and indeed an expansionist blurring) of anticipatory policing and preventive war. It concludes with some reflections upon how these practices and precedents become transferred and translated within the post-WWII history of United States globalism and national security discourse. Nikhil Pal Singh is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Publications include Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2005), Climbin Jacobs Ladder: the Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack ODell (University of California Press, 2010) and Exceptional Empire: Race and War in US Globalism (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).
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