Mon 6.22.09| Paranoia, Empire, and Torture

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Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest Routledge, 1995

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Why does the US torture people who it knows have no actionable intelligence? What does paranoia have to do with torture conducted at places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? What has the commentary surrounding the Abu Ghraib photographs crucially ignored? Anne McClintock weighs in on these and other matters.

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