Manufacturing the “Other”: Racialized Nationalism, Counterterrorism, and the Domestic Creation of the U.S. War on Terror
Reparative and community-based approaches are necessary to address the lasting harms inflicted by the War on Terror. Measures such as record expungement, compensation for wrongful prosecutions, and formal acknowledgment of state wrongdoing offer more effective pathways to public safety than surveillance. Together, these reforms challenge the use of national security as a mechanism of racial governance and provide a pathway toward dismantling the institutional legacies of the War on Terror.