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In Black Interdictions, Philip Kretsedemas exposes the antiblack racism latent in the U.S. government's Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and 1990s which set the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in the new millennium and lead to the migration and refugee policies of the Trump era and beyond. This type of radical exclusion is singular to the black experience and the black/nonblack binary must be factored into an analysis of the US migration regime. It is not possible to work together for equity and justice if we are not prepared to grapple with this divisive history and the instinct to avoid dealing with the singularity of the black experience. This book will be of interest to scholars of migration and refugee studies, black studies, legal studies, public policy and international relations, and many others.
Contents
Introduction: Black Interdictions
Chapter 1: Navigating the Chasm: Antiblackness, Mobilities, and the Law
Chapter 2: Sovereign Bodies and the Law: A Pre-History of the Antiblack Racism Underlying
the US Government's Haitian Refugee Policies
Chapter 3: Radical Exclusion
Chapter 4: Challenging the Interdictions
Chapter 5: Reconfiguring the Black/Nonblack Binary: The Radical Exclusion of Haitian and
Cuban Refugees in the Era of Operation Sea Signa
Chapter 6: The Radical Exclusion of Haitian, African and Central American Refugees in the
Trump Era
Chapter 7: A Legal Strategy for the End of the World, and Beyond
