The U.S. border is a place of intense racialization and militarization. It’s a place where there are fewer protections against governmental abuse of power than anywhere else in the country. And it’s a place that over 200 million people call home. In today’s episode of Interactions, we examine the politics at the U.S. border as a way of understanding the racism and militarization at work everywhere else in the nation.
“The militarization of American life and its entanglements with white supremacy come as no surprise to those who have been paying attention to the U.S. border,” explains Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. “U.S. border regimes are a part of a network of enforcement regimes all around the world.”
How do we prioritize antiracism and demilitarize American society as a whole? We start with the border. Because the border, it turns out, is everywhere.
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