The WSU Humanities Center invites faculty, students, staff, and the community to attend a Faculty Fellows Research Seminar featuring Navid Farnia (Assistant Professor, African American Studies). Join us for a discussion of Professor Farnia's work in progress, "National Liberation in an Imperialist World: Race, Counterrevolution, and the United States".

Abstract: Navid Farnia’s book manuscript, National Liberation in an Imperialist World: Race, Counterrevolution, and the United States, traces the national security state’s evolution by investigating how U.S. officials responded to national liberation movements at home and abroad from the 1950s to 1980. The book examines several cases, including the Cuban Revolution, the 1960s Black urban rebellions, the Viet Nam War, the Black Panther Party, the siege at Wounded Knee, and Zimbabwe’s independence struggle. In doing so, it highlights the interrelated strategies the United States used to export racial oppression while importing the violent machinations of its global empire. The project makes sense of the national security state’s evolution by showing how the strategies and tactics used against liberation movements triggered modern forms of policing and warfare. These strategies and tactics facilitated the national security state’s globalization, or in other words, the making of a national security empire. The U.S.’s national security empire, Dr. Farnia argues, is a transnational counterrevolutionary apparatus that targets racialized populations at home and abroad. 

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