Empire of Defense : Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War Paperback / softback
by Joseph Darda
Paperback / softback
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Empire of Defense is an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American military engagement.
Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a course for decades of permanent conflict.
Conflict, which the United States, he argues, ingeniously reframed as the defense of humanity from illiberal beliefs and behaviors. Empire of Defense shows how a string of rationales for war from the 1940s to the present--anticommunism, crime control, humanitarianism, and counterterrorism--paved the way for unprecedented military growth that secured rather than dismantled the existing racial order.
A wide range of writers, filmmakers, and journalists--from I.
F. Stone and Ishmael Reed to Stanley Kubrick and June Jordan--have struggled to tell the story of war without end, and Darda reveals how that struggle itself tells the bigger story.
He draws a clear line from the Cold War to the war on terror and makes sense of our collective cultural efforts to recognize the not-so-new normal of nonstop military empire-building.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:10/06/2019
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- ISBN:9780226632926
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:10/06/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226632926
