US wars abroad activate racial borders that target domestic minorities

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.” Perhaps the most significant example of this process in the twentieth century involved the treatment of Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 100,000 people of Japanese descent were rounded up and put into detention camps. Young and old were incarcerated simply for having a Japanese ancestor and forced into harsh conditions in makeshift camps, often without cooking or even plumbing facilities. Of those incarcerated, nearly three-quarters were US citizens. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 536

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s core thesis of empire shaping domestic racialization; also parallels the Pearl Harbor-Japanese internment case echoed in the claimed-fascism/two-tier citizenship material. — 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 an internal racial border against domestic enemy-representatives — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 548; Foreign wars redraw internal racial borders that target domestic civilians of enemy descent — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 548 (+6 more)
• SEED: An essay angle on how war-making and race-making co-constitute each other across US history as an analytic frame for current security-state critiques.

Broader Connections

• US wars abroad activate an internal racial border against domestic enemy-representatives #corroborates (0.98) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 548
• Foreign wars redraw internal racial borders that target domestic civilians of enemy descent #corroborates (0.97) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 548
• Foreign wars drive domestic racialization of perceived enemy populations #corroborates (0.96)
• Imperial war abroad delivered refugees directly into domestic racial marginalization. #expands (0.90)
• Domestic populations representing foreign enemies were interned in US wars #exemplifies (0.88)
• US imperialism abroad and domestic counterterrorism form one interconnected racial system #expands (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22
• US empire-building abroad drives anti-Muslim racism domestically #exemplifies (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1072
• Both domestic immigration and international conflict shape American racialization #expands (0.74) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 351