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Nikhil Pal Singh is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University and Faculty Diretor of the NYU Prison Education Program. His most recent book is Race and America’s Long War.
More than simple racism or discrimination, it is built upon violent elimination.
The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
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