Weekly Book List, February 6, 2012

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Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub

AMERICAN STUDIES

Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism by Jodi Melamed (University of Minnesota Press; 288 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Links what is termed "official antiracism" in the United States to the country's global expansionism.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Dangerous Liaisons: Anthropologists and the National Security State edited by Laura McNamara and Robert A. Rubinstein (SAR Press; 296