2000 presidential election, 4
2016 presidential election, 174, 177–178, 194–195, 201
Abu Ghraib prison scandal, 7
Acheson, Dean, 48
Adhami, Ridwan, 220
Afghanistan, 6–7, 77, 161–162, 244
African Blood Brotherhood, 92
Ahmed, Sara, 253
AIM. See American Indian Movement (AIM)
Albright, Madeline, 149
Al-Kassimi, Khaled, 138
Allison, Tanine, 213
Al Qaeda, 144
Alston, Philip, 115
Alt-Right, 88
Amadiume, Ifi, 170
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 88–89
American Dream, 64–72, 113, 122–123, 129
American Indian Movement (AIM), 18–19, 250
American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II (Muller), 96
American Niceness: A Cultural History (Bramen), 5
American Revolution, 23–26, 28–29, 265n26
Anti-Coolie Act, 228
Aristide, Jean Paul, 166
assimilationism, 226
Baldwin, James, 11, 22, 33, 131
Bâli, Asli, 3
BAP. See Black Alliance for Peace (BAP)
baseball, 287n10
basketball, 67–68, 122–123, 126
Bassichis, Morgan, 70
BDS. See Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement
Bee, Samantha, 101
Belafonte, Harry, 121
Bell, Herman, 31
Bernstein, Robin, 125
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), 136–137
Bin Laden, Osama, 18
Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), 85
Black Freedom, 67, 82–84, 91, 93, 95, 121, 145–146, 156–157, 202
“Black Identity Extremists,” 9
Black internationalism, 80–81, 83–85
Black liberation, 31, 84, 93, 114, 231
Black Lives Matter, 27, 31–32, 56, 74–86, 96, 179, 183
Black Panther (film), 213, 248
Black Panther Party, 82, 84, 90, 94, 145, 249–250, 282n40
Black Radical Tradition, 81
Bloomberg, Michael, 197
Blum, William, 179
Boko Haram, 144
Bolsonaro, Jair, 152
Border Patrol, 229
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (Sandage), 110–111
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, 205
Bramen, Tirado, 5
Brown, Jaylen, 126
Brown, Kimberley Juanita, 127
Brown, Michael, 31, 74, 124–125
Brzezinsky, Zbigniew, 162
Buffett, Warren, 197
Bullimer, Elisabeth, 162
Bush, George W., 2, 4, 38, 187, 191, 199, 214, 225–226
Bush, Prescott, 38
Butler, Octavia, 61
Butterworth, Michael, 214
Caceres, Berta, 191
Cacho, Lisa Marie, 97
Cambodia, 240
Campbell-Martin, Tisha, 69
capitalism, 33–34, 64, 69, 72–73, 110–115, 118–119, 127–130, 171, 199, 223, 245
Caribbean, 29
Carroll, Pete, 105
Carter, Alprentice Bunchy, 94
Carter, Jimmy, 175
Cavanaugh, William, 170–171, 211–212
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 134–135, 155, 176–177, 180, 204, 213, 248
Chakravartty Paula, 116
Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, 51–62
Child Soldiers Prevention Act, 164
China, 44, 46–47, 84, 91, 137–138, 144, 173–174, 228–229, 238
Chomsky, Noam, 205
Churchill, Winston, 46
Clark, George Rogers, 257
Clarke, Mark, 94
Clinton, Bill, 8, 66, 128–129, 166, 180, 188, 201, 225
Clinton, Hillary, 118, 133, 137, 139, 166, 174–176, 179–180, 194–198, 200, 202–204, 226, 231
colonialism, settler, 14–15, 19–20
Communist Party, 91–93, 183–184
Confederate war memorials, 52–53
Cooper, Anderson, 168
Cooper, Anna Julia, 61
Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), 93–95
Crane, Conrad, 46
Cuba, 142, 152–154, 187, 223, 295n29
Cuban, Mark, 197
Currah, Paisley, 233
Cvetic, Matt, 183
DACA. See Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Davies, Carole Boyce, 92, 277n22
Dean, William, 46
deaths, from American military, 77
Declaration of Independence, 15, 23
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), 227
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), 188
Democratic National Committee (DNC), 174, 180
Democratic Party, 81, 118, 181–182, 188, 196, 199, 224, 226–228
De Niro, Robert, 214
Dillon, Stephen, 55, 114, 122, 285n9
DLC. See Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)
Douglass, Frederick, 102, 218, 228
Du Bois, W.E.B., 50, 61, 82–84, 93
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 12
Duncan, Arne, 169
DuVernay, Ava, 269n14
East Timor, 148
election of 2000, 4
Elias, Robert, 287n10
Eliot, T. S., 159
Ellis, Sarah Kate, 203
Emancipation Proclamation, 24
Eminem, 81
Espionage Act, 190
Espionage and Sedition Act, 91
Ethiopia, 82
Fabricating the Absolute Fake: American in Contemporary Pop Culture (Kooijman), 68
Fanning, Rory, 236–237, 246–247
Fanon, Frantz, 28
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Featherstone, Liza, 186
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 9, 177
Fernández, Belén, 170
Ferreira da Silva, Denise, 116
Finnström, Sverker, 164
Fischer, Mia, 214
flag worship, 211–212, 220. See also Kaepernick, Colin
Flint, Michigan, 245
football, 11–12, 76–77, 81, 84–85, 100–102, 104–105, 107, 120–125, 128, 214
Ford, Henry, 38
Forgie, Keir, 165
Forte, Maximilian, 138–141, 146–147, 151–152, 156, 170–171, 240, 295n29
Founding Fathers, 15, 18, 24, 28–29, 60–61
Freeman, Martin, 248
Freeman, Morgan, 238
“Free Speech Movement,” 88
Frey, Sylvia, 31
Fusion GPS, 176
Gaddafi, Muammar, 79, 139–140, 292n29
Garner, Erica, 30
Garvey, Marcus, 91
General Intelligence Division (GID), 90–91
Genovese, Eugene, 103
George, King of England, 256–257
GID. See General Intelligence Division (GID)
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina, 12
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 54, 122–123
Gingrich, Newt, 101
Girlfriends Tours International, 234
Giroux, Henry, 248
globalization, 223
Goldman, Emma, 91
Gore, Al, 4
Gowans, Stephen, 150
Grande, Sandy, 11
Gray, Freddie, 193
Great Depression, 112
Grewal, Zareena, 219
Guatemala, 77
Halliday, Jon, 46
Hamilton, Alexander, 272n27
Hamod, David, 140
Hampton, Fred, 94
Hansberry, Lorraine, 50
Harris-Perry, Melissa, 193
Hartman, Saidiya, 22, 25, 60, 72, 87, 100, 104, 120, 126–127, 236
hate crime legislation, 207–208
Hiroshima, 40
homelessness, 117
Hoover, Herbert, 38
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 92, 184
How Democracies Die (Levitsky and Ziblatt), 198
HUAC. See House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hudson, Peter James, 270n20
Huggins, John, 94
Hulk, The (film), 213
Hutton, Bobby, 94
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, 225
Imarisha, Walidah, 236
immigration, 37, 70, 100, 187, 222–235
incarceration, 19, 54–55, 128–129, 208–209, 241
inclusion
Independence Day (film), 213
“Indian Wars,” 18
Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 18–19
individualism, 15–16, 66–70, 110–111, 161
Indonesia, 148
Ingraham, Laura, 126
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 134–135, 141
Intimacies of Four Continents, The (Lowe), 30
Iraq, 6–7, 77, 149–150, 178, 244, 247–248
Italy, 82
Iverson, Allen, 68
jail. See incarceration
James, Joy, 1, 3, 26, 87, 128, 143, 145
James, LeBron, 126
Japan, nuclear bombing of, 40
Japanese internment, 40, 266n12
Jay-Z, 121
Jefferson, Thomas, 34–35, 52–53, 60
Jericho Movement, 95
Jim Crow, 27, 80, 84, 146, 183
Johnson, Edgar, 47
Johnson, Sylvester, 216
Jolie, Angelina, 169
Jones, Claudia, 73–74, 80, 82, 92
Jones, Jerry, 125
Jordan, Michael, 68
Judge, Ona, 61
Kaba, Mariame, 74
Kaepernick, Colin, 76, 78–79, 81, 84–86, 104–105, 107, 124–125, 220
Katznelson, Ira, 71
Key, Francis Scott, 57
Kim, Dong-Choon, 47
King, C. Richard, 12
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 72, 85, 93, 193, 202, 221, 223
King, Shaun, 105
Kinzer, Stephen, 177
Kish, Zenia, 57
Kony, Joseph, 163
Kooijman, Jaap, 68
Korea: The Unknown War (Cumings and Halliday), 46
Kristof, Nicholas, 198
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 52, 93–94, 219
Kuwait, 149
Kweli, Talib, 200
Kwon, Nayoung Aimee, 44
Lee, Kyoo, 3
Lemay, Curtis, 46
Lend-Lease program, 38
Leroy, Justin, 57
Levitsky, Steven, 198
Libya, 77, 79, 139–140, 150, 155, 191, 195, 244, 292n29
Lorde, Audre, 87
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hartman), 25
Lowe, Lisa, 9, 20–21, 30, 83–84, 127, 203, 222, 232, 301n3
Lumumba, Patrice, 134
Lytle Hernández, Kelly, 19, 228, 289n38
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 217
Maddow, Rachel, 178
Malcolm X, 64, 84, 94, 120, 145, 193
Marshall, George, 48
Marshall Plan, 47
Martin, Trayvon, 125
Massey, Eli, 203
Matthews, Connie, 82
Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, 207
Mattis, James, 174
McCarran Internal Security Act, 92
McCarthy, Joseph, 92
McChrystal, Stanley, 162
McCormack, Gavan, 268n19
McCrisken, Trevor, 239
Merkel, Angela, 97
militarism, 210–212, 214–217, 223, 236–254
militarization, of society, 77–78
Miranda, Lin-Manuel, 58
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 82
Modoc War, 17
Moeller, Robert, 141
Monroe Doctrine, 34
Mooney, James, 38
Moore, Maya, 125
Morell, Michael, 197
Mortenson, Greg, 162
Moskal, Stormi, 214
Moten, Fred, 130
Movement for Black Lives, 75
Moyo, Dambisa, 137
Muller, Eric, 96
Museveni, Yoweri, 164
Myths that Made America (Paul), 66
Nagasaki, 40
Nair, Yasmin, 203
National Basketball Association (NBA), 67–68
National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), 214–215, 288n25
National Defense Authorization Act, 6, 207
National Endowment for Democracy (NED), 177
National Football League (NFL), 11–12, 76, 81, 84–85, 100–102, 104–105, 107, 120–121, 123–124, 128, 214
National Labor Relations Act, 113
National Security Agency (NSA), 9, 96–97, 177, 190
NED. See National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
neocolonialism, 135
neoliberalism, 56, 109, 114, 117, 234
New Deal, 35
Newton, Huey P., 84, 90–91, 94
9/11 attacks. See September 11 attacks
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 135–137, 165–166
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 56, 133, 188, 195, 228, 232, 306n24
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 79, 174
North Korea, 42–43, 84, 181, 268n19
NSA. See National Security Agency (NSA)
Nuclear Apartheid: The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy From World War II to the Present (Maddock), 49–50
Obama, Barack, 10, 31, 61, 67, 75, 77, 96–97, 139, 147, 155–156, 164, 169, 174, 176, 188–194, 197–200, 202–204, 217, 226–227, 232, 246
Occupy Wall Street, 71
Oded Yinon Plan, 206
oil, 38
Operation Wetback, 229
Ormes, Jackie, 93
Oshinsky, David, 27
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Williams), 98
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Glymph), 121
Page, Carter, 176
Palestine, 75
Palmer Raids, 91
Pan-Africanism, 31, 134, 265n26
Parenti, Michael, 131, 143, 151
Peal Harbor, 38
Pelosi, Nancy, 235
People’s History of the United States, A (Zinn), 113
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, 225
Philippines, 240
Pinochet, Augusto, 2
“Poor People’s Campaign,” 72
poverty, 115, 117–118, 217, 231–232
PREA. See Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
presidential election of 2000, 4
presidential election of 2016, 174, 177–178, 194–195, 201
prison. See incarceration
Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), 208–209
private enterprise, 110
Problem from Hell, A: America and the Age of Genocide (Power), 147–148
propaganda, 60–61, 76, 92, 156, 199, 240
Putin, Vladimir, 173, 177, 180, 198
Quantitative Easing, 69
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (Bernstein), 125
racism, 8, 26, 29–31, 47–49, 53–57, 60–61, 76, 78–81, 84–86, 101–102, 168, 173, 198, 218–219, 223, 228–229
Rai, Amit, 7
Rana, Junaid, 9
Rawlings-Blake, Stephanie, 193
Reagan, Ronald, 114
Redskins (football team), 11–12
Reed, Ishmael, 58
Republican Party, 175, 180, 190, 199
Responsibility to Protect (R2P), 139, 150–151
Richie, Beth, 128
“rising tide” ideology, 109–110
Robeson, Eslanda, 42, 50, 61, 80, 83
Robeson, Paul, 42, 50, 61, 74, 82–83, 183–184
Robinson, Cedric, 127
Rodriguez, Dylan, 172
Roosevelt, Franklin, 113
Rosenberg, Ethel, 92
Rosenberg, Julius, 92
Russia, 144, 172–185, 187, 198, 204–205, 238. See also Soviet Union
Rwanda, 136
Saito, Natsu Taylor, 14, 19, 33
Sanders, Bernie, 72, 118–119, 174–175, 180, 196
Saucier, P. Khalil, 96, 277n17
Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America (Grewal), 159
Schermerhorn, Calvin, 56
September 11 attacks, 1–5, 214
settler colonialism, 14–15, 19–20
Sexton, Jared, 51
Sharpe, Christina, 30, 79, 100, 236
Sharpton, Al, 193
Shulman George, 25
slavery, 22–33, 52–53, 56–57, 82, 90, 102–107, 111–112, 122, 126–127, 257
Slavery Abolition Act, 30
Slave Trade Act, 30
Smith, Andrea, 18, 232–233, 235
Smith, Daniel, 64
Smith, Paul, 105
Smith Act, 92
Somerset, James, 29
South America, 34
Soviet Union, 38–40, 44–45, 83, 91, 161–162, 173. See also Russia
Spade, Dean, 70, 89–90, 201, 205–207
Spencer, Richard, 88
Spillers, Hortense, 28
sports, 122–126, 214, 276n11, 288n25. See also football
Standing Rock Sioux, 19
Steele Dossier, 176
Stokes, DaShanne, 12
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP), 134–136
Stupart, Richard, 159
Syria, 142, 150, 155–156, 173, 191, 193, 195
Tadiar, Neferti X. M., 10, 109, 290n5
Taibbi, Matt, 69, 123, 179–180
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, 63, 109, 131, 143, 186, 201, 210
Taylor, Moses, 57
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film), 2
Telecommunications Act, 128–129
terrorism, 7, 9–10, 144, 214. See also September 11 attacks; War on Terror
Third World Women’s Alliance, 82
Thirteenth Amendment, 24, 27, 128
Tibbs, Donald F., 16
Tomlin, Mike, 105
Tomorrow Never Dies (film), 213
transgender community, 203
Treaty of Greenville, 17
trickle down economics, 109
Trump, Donald, 42–43, 48, 52–53, 60, 77, 81, 88, 100–102, 105, 118, 126, 132–133, 156, 173–178, 180–181, 185, 196–200, 203, 209–210, 219–220, 223, 255, 301n13
Tuck, Eve, 20
Two Faces of American Freedom, The (Rana), 24
Two-Hawks, John, 15
United Arab Emirates (UAE), 155
United States
as lovable, 5
US Africa Command (AFRICOM), 138–141, 173
US-Dakota War, 17
Venezuela, 142
Veterans Day, 215
Violent Crime Control Act, 56
Von Eschen, Penny M., 85
Wahhabism, 154
War on Terror, 2–3, 6–10, 18, 190, 214
Warren, Calvin, 28, 107, 270n15
Washington, George, 16–17, 25–26, 52, 60–61
wealth, 63–73, 121, 199, 274n21
wealth inequality, 115
Wekker, Gloria, 109
Wells, Ida B., 61
Wenger, Tisa, 23
West, Kanye, 69
When Affirmative Action Was White (Katznelson), 71
“White Man’s Burden,” 147
“white rights,” 88
White Savior Industrial Complex, 158–171
white supremacy, 10, 38, 51–62, 78, 102–103, 122
Whitman, James, 37
WikiLeaks, 139, 174–175, 180, 197
Williams, Bianca C., 234
Williams, Brian, 181
Williams, Kristian, 98
Wilson, Woodrow, 91
Winfrey, Oprah, 68
Woods, Tryon P., 16, 55, 96, 130, 269n14, 277n17
World War I, 34
World War II, 33–41, 84, 112–113
Wynter, Sylvia, 18
Yang, K. Wayne, 20
Yemen, 155
Yiannopoulos, Milo, 88
Yugoslavia, 8
Zaire, 134
Ziblatt, Daniel, 198
Zinn, Howard, 113