Scott R. Anderson: National Guard, ICE, and American Cities

After months of National Guard and ICE deployment around the U.S., questions remain about what these domestic deployments mean, under what legal authority are they happening and what have the lower Courts said about these issues, Scott R. Anderson details all the different aspects of these questions and more. Anderson outlines the complicated legal ways the States and Trump Administration are arguing about the scope of authority and contours of deployment of National Guard and Military under 10…

Shobana Shankar: Africa, India, and the Making of Race

Shobana Shankar discusses her book, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race. Prof. Shankar explains how Africans and Indians make and unmake their differences. While decolonization brought Africans and Indians together to challenge Euro-American style white supremacy, discord over caste, religion, sex and skin color simmered beneath the rhetoric of Afro-Asian solidarity. Shobana Shankar is a professor of History at Stonybrook University, New York.