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Race and National Security. Edited by Matiangai V. S. Sirleaf. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 263. Index.

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Race and National Security. Edited by Matiangai V. S. Sirleaf. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 263. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2024

Natsu Taylor Saito*
Affiliation:
Georgia State University

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References

1 For examples, see Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (2023); Moon-Ho Jung, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (2023); Saher Selod, Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror (2018). On the underrepresentation of Indigenous people in the national security field, see Gabriella Gricius, Indigenous Representation in National Security, Represent (CSIS International Security Program, Feb. 2021), at https://defense360.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Gricius_Represent.pdf.

2 Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang & George Lipsitz, Introduction, in Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines 1–19, 5–11 (Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang & George Lipsitz eds., 2019) (explaining the consequences of the fact that “[e]very established discipline in the academy has an origin that entails engagement and complicity with white supremacy.”). Id. at 5.

3 Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law 3–4 (2005).

4 Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004).

5 Erakat, p. 179, quoting Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race 117 (2016).

6 See Natsu Taylor Saito, Settler Colonialism, Race and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists 77 (2020).

7 The Declaration of Independence, paras. 26, 29 (U.S. 1776). On meaning of “domestic insurrections,” see Jeffrey Ostler, The Shameful Final Grievance of the Declaration of Independence, Atlantic (Feb. 8, 2020), at https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/americas-twofold-original-sin/606163.

8 Irene Watson, Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law 5 (2015).