In "Race and National Security," leading experts challenge conventional interpretations of national security by illuminating the underpinning of white supremacy in our social consciousness.
A conference Nov. 17 will celebrate the launch of the volume, which is edited by Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf, JD, MA, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
The book centers the experience of those who have long been on the receiving end of racialized state violence. It finds that re-envisioning national security requires more than just reducing the size and scope of the security state. "Race and National Security" invites us to radically reimagine a world where the security state does not keep Black, Brown, and other marginalized peoples subordinated through threats of and actual incarceration, violence, torture, and death.
Speakers will challenge national security orthodoxy and disrupt accepted truths. This conversation will bring together in one conference domestic, transnational, and comparative and international law perspectives on racial justice and national security.
The conference is hosted by the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and co-sponsored by the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law.
This free event is a conversation about the role of race and racism and how they function in subtle and unsubtle ways — to inform everything from who is the perceived threat, to who is being protected, to whose security is at risk, as well as whose security is imperiled.
Register for the conference here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/race-national-security-book-launch-conference-tickets-733560598497?aff=Email