.... This militarizing of society that has constitutively marked modern state formation shapes social disciplining of individuals and the regulation of social structures. The article exemplifies how this has given rise to a discourse of martial races, which in turn shades social practices from the industrial...

... The colonizers, Tanika Sarkar claims, set the stereotype of the effeminate Hindu Bengali man against not only the “ ‘manly,’ virile, Brit- ish public schoolboy-­cum-­administrator” but also the “Indian martial races.”11 Colonial writings reveal a fascination with the “martial races...

... on this history, constructing Sikh men (of the Jat caste and from rural areas in particular) as good soldiers and warriors who were inducted in large numbers into the British army, producing a notion of the “martial caste” and “martial races.” 19 Through this process, Sikhs, mostly of the Jat caste, were...

... cohere around racial distinction, exclusion, and elimination—the racial becomes the principal modality of explicit state delimitation, producing such discursive figures as the martial race, the muscular theonomy of everyday life, and the pervasive militarization of society it encodes. Goldberg goes...

... of 2020, as states of emergency were declared in both the Philippines and the United States, Filipinx scholars offer memories and reflections of life under martial law in the Philippines and its aftermath and resonances in the present. Here, • • • Amid the pandemic, the news network went dark...

... be discerned in France in relation to the Algerian civil war, which has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives (including approximately 50 French employ- ees, diplomats, and missionaries) since the outlawing of Islamic opposition parties and the declaration of martial law...

... for the imposition of martial law and the massive expenses involved in protecting 176 Ashley Dawson a relatively small contingent of global elites.33 Since 9/11 the conflation of Since 9/11 the large gatherings of people in urban spaces with terrorism has proceeded apace. Pop-up armies now...

... in black newspapers offered eloquent and nuanced lamentations (the editors of the San Francisco Elevator eulogized the slain president even as they noted that “we have sometimes thought Mr. Lin- coln too slow” in “the elevation of our race Sermons delivered...

... of the possibility of a truth of himself always contingent on the presence of his white enemy within that schema, “the Negro” discovers himself subject to the neurosis of a race war that cannot be won because the conditions of his own martial subjectivity forbid it.30...

... that biopolitics find their martial sources in an older practice of a “race war” against sovereign authority. By the early nineteenth century, Foucault presumes, “race war” was absorbed by biopolitical regulation. I shall argue, however, that race...

... analytical – engagement with racialized-sexualized imagery. In place of normative readings of racialized pornography, this paper offers a new reading practice – racial iconography – which examines the ways that pornography mobilizes race in particular social moments, under particular technological conditions...

... of the Philippines shifted from rescuing Filipinos from Spain’s imperial rule to brutally defeating an inferior race of brown people who were unworthy or unqualified for sovereignty. Despite this, African American soldiers and their Black supporters overwhelmingly defended the racist, colonial policies of the United...

... are intimately connected. Following this thread, I build on scholarship on the globality of racial capitalism that focuses on the commodity as one of its key forms, illuminating the interrelations of labor, race, and gender. The magic of the commodity obscures social relations through a fantasy of equivalence...

..., the political ontology of Frank B. Wilderson, and the cinematic vision of Haile Gerima against certain signs of prevarication, even gainsaying, regarding the nature of slavery and its afterlife in prominent strains of critical (race) theory, here advanced by noted scholars like Giorgio Agamben and Achille...

... the urban poor. She later helped organize pickets and strikes with stevedores and factory workers under conditions of martial law. In her forties she went to the United States and worked mostly as a live-in domestic worker in New Jersey and New York City to pay for her children’s education back home. 28...

... blindness about the ways race and racial dispossession were being reprogrammed across the British Empire in and through emancipation—leading to the intensi financial instruments and cation of British necropower with the rise of British imperial liberalism. 18 The LBS collective affirms the “pastness...

... by critical race theory, anarcho-communist, queer, subaltern, neurodiverse becomings, and we aspire to produce knowledge that is of use to the constituents and practitioners of forms of life adapting to survive at the limits of computational colonialism and its practico-epistemic domain. Honestly...

... and work together to reproduce the hegemonic criteria of belong- ing in the United States. Second, she illustrates the complex process by which newcomers are evaluated and positioned along the different axes of class, gender, race...

...), there is violence, there is even sexually demeaning vio- lence. But this violence increasingly holds apart and rests on the absolute (because absolutized), unending, and untraversible difference of race and religion, beyond which...

... for money and recognition that animates the “race to the bottom.” Like the very structure of the Manila Film Center, which rose out of the loan-­funded artifcial landscape of the CCP, the Amazing Show is a spectacle created for the gaze of the outsider and made possible by “his” generosity. Here...