Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence
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Maxamed Abumaye's outstanding transdisciplinary work draws connections from East Africa to California, illuminating linkages between the American military's use of drones in Somalia to stop-and-frisk policies in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood, from the treatment of refugees in Kenya to Black Lives Matter activism in the United States. A tour de force.--Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University An uncommonly riveting work that elucidates the various levels of international, continental, and municipal intersections arbitrating the everyday experiences of Somalis at home, in Africa, and in a Southern California military town. Abumaye's usage of collaborative methods and personal testimony endows this work with a quality that so-called more objective researchers cannot match.--James Lance Taylor, author of Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama
