...A. Naomi Paik This article examines the case of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees the US state indefinitely detained on its Guantánamo naval base from 1991 to 1994. It argues that the predicament of these refugees emerged out of a nexus of historical threads that became entangled...

... of public discourse and language. One of these locations is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I look at how these three spaces are rep- resented and what the relations among them might be. My reflections explore the relationship between language and space, how words map, blur...

..., epitomized by the camps at Guantánamo Bay, Mirzoeff | Invisible Empire 23 Bagram, and Abu Ghraib. In the classic analysis of the subject by Louis Althusser, the police call out to us, “Hey, you there,” and in acknowledging that hail, we are constituted...

... modeled on US suburban communities, similar to the little pieces of Americana on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base or on Kwajalein Island that cater to US military personnel and their families. 4 These spaces of leisure require the constant displacement of local people and their incorporation into the new...

..., declaring, “We cannot permit the construction of concentration camps in our land.” Yet there were other slogans that only protested the use of Puerto Rican land for such camps. In an unsettling (and prophetic) idiom, one shouted: “Carter, send them to Guantánamo!”61 With unstated irony, the US...

..., authorizing detention and military trials for noncitizens suspected of terrorism.4 3. The opening on January 11, 2002, of a detention camp for unlawful enemy com- batants at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba. Over seven hundred persons have been detained...

... an insistent presence on our intimate social ecologies, casting a pall over intellectual choices, political engagements, and academic lives, while for those more distant from the study of empire, the events of 9/11, the supposedly temporary occupation of Iraq, Guantánamo detentions, and the torture...

... at Guantanamo Bay, where the Bush—followed by Clinton—administration held approximately three hundred Haitian refugees at Camp Bulkely. 23 ACT UP began protesting Haitian incarceration when deplorable conditions made two refugees at Guantanamo, Rigaud Milenette and Silieses Success, so ill that government...

.... Another student group focused on human rights violations committed against undocumented immigrant farm workers and Guantánamo Bay prisoners. Because neither group has full U.S. constitutional protections, activists often turn to interna- tional human rights law. In particular, advocates...

.... At times it produces unnerving examples: journalists reporting on Guantánamo Bay detainees have written about a massive wave of hunger strikes. Prison authorities resort to forced feeding to keep their captives alive.4 An unnamed detainee reportedly told his lawyer, Julie Tarver of the Center...

..., and Nigeria.11 Commando-­style Drug Enforcement Agency teams work alongside Special Forces operations in Honduras and Mexico, while much of Latin America is flooded with drug money and arms from US manufacturers. President Obama, who ran on a platform of closing the Guantánamo Bay detention center...

...- tory and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal. She has published articles on US radio history and on public opinion about Guantánamo detentions and was an execu- tive producer on the digital project Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. She is the author of The Listener’s Voice...

... this story, A. Naomi Paik focuses on those HIV-­positive Haitians detained at Guantánamo in the 1990s. She explores the violence of a paternalist US human rights discourse that enforced laws of exclusion as well as demonstrates how these conditions set the stage for Guantánamo to be used for detention...

... on literacy, educational migrants, human rights, and migrants in new labor markets. Jana K. Lipman is an associate professor in the History Department at Tulane University. She is the author of Guantánamo: A Working-­Class History between Empire and Revolution (2009). Her work has also been published...

... of the SERE program to Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) to Iraq via Afghanistan, where they continue to be practiced today. 112   113 114   115 116   117 118   119 120   121 122   123 124   125 126   127 128 Source notes: Pages 11 2  –  113 : This was the first document released, after...

... in repeated media and governmental representations of converts to Islam as potential terrorists. For example, news reports mentioning Richard Belmar and Martin Mubanga, both British detainees in Guantánamo, Cuba, who were eventually extradited to Great Britain, consistently reminded the public...

... and debates about national expansion, the end of slavery, and the creation of federal immigration policy. As a public historian, he has curated exhibits on the history of Chinese exclusion in Brooklyn and New Jersey, and is currently a member of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project. Kirsten A. Weld...

... consequences of establishing Guantánamo Bay as a site of imprisonment and torture. Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen C. Garwood Centennial professor of English and professor of wom- en’s and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture...

.... At the same time, Alberto Gonzales, author of the infamous torture memo, stood poised for confi rmation as U.S. attorney general, and prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp entered their fourth year of detention.1 It seemed as if the impe- rial military machine had...

... its illegitimate activities onto anomalous spaces such as Guantánamo Bay. The second set of essays investigates the meaning of September 11 for the Islamic communities abroad and within the United States. Authors point out...