This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on patreon.com and by University of California Press,

which publishes loads of titles of interest to dig listeners like you.

One that you might find interesting is Race in America's Long War by Nikiel Paul Singh.

Donald Trump's election produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressive, and leftists globally.

Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived

here. Race in America's long war examines the relationship between war, politics, police power, and the changing contours of

race and racism in the contemporary United States. Singh argues that the United States' pursuit of war

since the September 11th terrorist attacks has reanimated a longer history of imperial statecraft that segregated and

eliminated enemies, both within and overseas. America's territorial expansion and Indian removals,

settler in-migration and nativist restriction, and African slavery and its afterlives were formative social and political processes

that drove the rise of the United States as a capitalist world power long before the onset of globalization.

Spanning the course of U.S. history, these crucial essays show how the return of racism and war as seemingly permanent features of American public and political life is at the heart of our present crisis and collective disorientation.

Race in America's Long War by Nikiel Pal Singh. Out now from University of California Press.

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is a second week in a row where the diglet has two separate guests.

A lot is happening.

I had two interviews scheduled, and I pulled listeners, and listeners overwhelmingly told me to post the two interviews separately if they were on two different

topics. So here we go. The massacre in Las Vegas has once again put the long simmering

debate over gun control back on boil.

The shooter had 23 firearms in his hotel room, including, according to the Washington Post,

at least a dozen semi-automatic rifles legally modified to fire-like automatic weapons. The debate follows a well-worn and

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