US wars abroad activate an internal racial border against domestic enemy-representatives

Evidence

Race scholar Nikhil Pal Singh argues that “frontier wars, the wars of the early U.S. empire, and the twentieth century’s world wars all illuminated affinities between war making and race making, activating or reaffirming distinctions between friend and enemy along an internal racial border.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 548

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US imperial wars abroad drive the racial exclusion of Arab Americans at home. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 236; US wars abroad activate racial borders that target domestic minorities — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 536; Foreign wars redraw internal racial borders that target domestic civilians of enemy descent — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 548 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Foreign wars redraw internal racial borders that target domestic civilians of enemy descent #corroborates (0.98) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 548
• Foreign wars drive domestic racialization of perceived enemy populations #corroborates (0.95)
• US imperialism abroad and domestic counterterrorism form one interconnected racial system #corroborates (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22
• Domestic populations representing foreign enemies were interned in US wars #exemplifies (0.85)
• War abroad functions as domestic social control #expands (0.72)