Law and the Humanities, Co-Sponsored by Critical Theories

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Session Type: Section Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Room: Golden Gate 8

Floor: Lobby Level

In “Racial Terror and the Decline of the Liberal Legal Order,” panelists will interrogate the relationship between white supremacy, liberalism, and the law in the modern US. Historical changes to the state apparatus under the pretext of national security have led to an assault on the basic humanity of racially subordinated peoples. Through an analysis of the national security state, the Constitution, social movements, and social murder, speakers will trouble the common theoretical divide between liberalism and racial terror, arguing that modern liberalism is undergirded by racial suppression and violence.