Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations

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1 Robert Vitalis, White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015)

2 Sankaran Krishna, “Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations,” Alternatives 26, no. 4 (2001): 401-2.

3 Vitalis, White World Order, Black Power Politics. Robbie Shilliam interviewed these, and other scholars who sustained postcolonial and other critical perspectives in IR, two years ago with the aim of documenting their intellectual and personal trajectories. See, Robbie Shilliam, “Race and Racism in International Relations: Retrieving and Intellectual Inheritance,” International Politics Review 8 no. 2 (2020): 152–196.

4 Shilliam, “Race and Racism in International Relations,” 153.

5 A key instance of this interactive dynamic is policing. As Stuart Schrader illustrates in Badges without Borders, U.S. global counterinsurgency organized through technical assistance and trainings for client states exported techniques for the management of racialized citizens and imported back to domestic policing more militarized practices. Stuart Schrader, Badges without Borders: How Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019).

6 See for example Michael Ignatieff, Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan (New York: Penguin, 2003).

7 Uday Mehta, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

8 Ibid., 47.

9 Karuna Mantena, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2010), 185.

10 Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).

11 Darryl Li, The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019)

12 Mantena, Alibis of Empire. In the case of Jamaica, see Thomas Holt, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991). Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

13 Stuart Hall, “Race The Floating Signifier,” in The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, ed. Kobena Mercer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).

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Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity (RDI) at the University of Chicago. She is author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination and co-editor, with Jennifer Pitts, of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Writings.