Memories of the last 20 years are rarely focused on increased state violence and repression in the post-9/11 world. The damage has largely been forgotten.

The race to the bottom is an imperative of austerity, which is foundational to the history of state violence in the U.S.

Another twenty-year anniversary is the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that took place in Durban, South Africa between August 31, and September 8. The George W.

U.S. wars in foreign countries always come home.

Contemporary conversations about racism in Cuba appear to have forgotten what it was like for Africans on the island republic before the Revolution.