January 2018

This tribute to the late Marilyn B. Young, an historian of US militarization, war and empire, gathers together key themes and insights from her work and provides brief summaries and illustrative quotations from some of her essays over the past two decades.

This essay, adapted from an op-ed published in the New York Times, uses the occasion of Donald Trump’s racist disparagement of immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African nations to explore racism’s deeper roots in US immigration policy, and role in shaping in the dominant terms of the immigration debate. How…