12 Unsettling the Border

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I Histories and Structures
7. 1 Race and Empire in International Law 27
8. 2 A Racist International Law: Domination and Resistance in the Americas of the Nineteenth Century 45
9. 3 Racial Panics and the Making of (White) International Law 76
10. 4 A “World Problem”: Apartheid, International Law, and the Domestication of Race 105
11. 5 From Metaphor to Memory: Remembering Dantès Bellegarde and W.E.B. Du Bois in the Legal Definition of Slavery and Forced Labor at the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization 124
12. 6 Transforming the Racialized International System: Intellectual and Political Challenges 144
13. PART II Peoples, Places, Perimeters, and Powers
14. 7 Human Rights, COVID-19, and Global Critical Race Feminism 173
15. 8 Law and Epidemiology in the Making of Guantanamo 193
16. 9 White Health and International Law 203
17. 10 Race and Politics in International Criminal Law: Case Studies from the Arab World 240
18. 11 Ukrainian Racial Contracting and the Geopolitics of Welcome in International Refugee Law 255
19. 12 Unsettling the Border 277
20. 13 Race as a Technology of Global Political Economy 306
21. 14 Barbarians at the Gate: The NIEO and the Stakes of Racial Capitalism 325
22. 15 Race Consciousness and Contemporary International Law Scholarship: The Political Economy of a Blind Spot 338
23. 16 An Unreliable Friend? Human Rights and the Struggle Against Racial Capitalism 365
24. PART III Critical Race Theory and International Law
25. 17 Postracial Xenophobia: An Abbreviated History of Racial Ideology in International Legal Thought 383
26. 18 Toward a Transnational Critical Race Theory: Black Radicalism across the Oceans 402
27. 19 Shades of Ignorance: A Critique of the Epistemic Whiteness of International Law 429
28. 20 A Critical Race Theory of Global Colorblindness: Racial Ideology and White Supremacy 452
29. 21 The Post-Racial Universalist Framework: Colonial Logic in International Law and Relations 478
30. 22 Critical Race Theory Meets Third World Approaches to International Law 494
31. Index 529