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The process occurs in the U.S. and globally. Thus, many analysts have found other names for such surplus populations suffering exploitation. Comparative literature theorist Rob Nixon writes of "remaindered humans" as the compacted left-overs "on whom neoliberalism's inequities bear down most heavily."[72] Mike Davis has discussed them as what the system sees: mere "global residium."[73] Annu Jalais in India references these groups as neolib..
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These groups have long been present in U.S. history. Above all, black and brown dissident groups--but also those from indigenous and Asian/Asian-American, as well as white communities--have arisen to challenge their communities' dispossession. They are viewed by the state as in need of monitoring, control, even "neutralization," to use FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's term for the destruction, division, defamation, and even death that the FBI..
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With the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex working together in these ways there is a continuous, intensifying coordination of power between Lockdown America at home and imperial Pax Americana abroad. We need to feel these connections conceptually and viscerally, as did W. E. B. Du Bois in his time, because it surfaces not only coordinated powers of domination but a network of shared suffering by those exploited a..
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Investigative journalist Chris Hedges citing ACLU statistics notes that between 1970 and 2015 U.S. prisons have mushroomed by 700 percent.
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Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, two contemporary theorists of U.S. empire, have also suggested that the root of contemporary U.S. imperial abuses "should be traced back to the very origins of the country, to black slavery and the genocidal wars against the Native Americans."
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