Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)

New Books in African American Studies · Nov 30, 2023 · 1h 14m

An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy.For more than three centuries, Americans have pursued strategies of security that routinely make them feel vulnerable, unsafe, and insecure. American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability (Princeton UP, 2023) probes this paradox by examining American attachments to the terror of the sublime, the fear of uncertainty, and the anxieties produced by unending racial threat. Challenging conventional approaches that leave questions of security to policy experts, Russ…