Domestic Counterinsurgency: How Counterinsurgency Tactics Combined with Laws Were Deployed against Blacks throughout U.S. History
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
Journal Abbreviation
U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev.
Abstract
Long before the United States engaged in counterinsurgency overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States engaged in counterinsurgency domestically against blacks. The history of America is a history of enduring conflict between black insurgents and white counterinsurgents. This conflict began centuries ago with the forced transport of enslaved blacks to America’s shores. From the beginning, whites employed all levers of national power including laws to suppress black resistance. The laws became counterinsurgency weapons launched against blacks in an internal conflict lasting generations.
First Page
31
Last Page
62
Publication Date
2013
Recommended Citation
Bill Chin,
Domestic Counterinsurgency: How Counterinsurgency Tactics Combined with Laws Were Deployed against Blacks throughout U.S. History,
3
U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev.
31
(2013).
Available at:
https://lawcommons.lclark.edu/faculty_articles/166