Black Interdictions

Philip Kretsedemas is professor of sociology at University of Massachusetts, Boston.

• Introduction: Black InterdictionsChapter 1: Navigating the Chasm: Antiblackness, Mobilities, and the LawChapter 2: Sovereign Bodies and the Law: A Pre-History of the Antiblack Racism Underlyingthe US Government’s Haitian Refugee PoliciesChapter 3: Radical ExclusionChapter 4: Challenging the InterdictionsChapter 5: Reconfiguring the Black/Nonblack Binary: The Radical Exclusion of Haitian andCuban Refugees in the Era of Operation Sea SignaChapter 6: The Radical Exclusion of Haitian, African and Central American Refugees in theTrump EraChapter 7: A Legal Strategy for the End of the World, and Beyond

Starting with U.S. interdiction of Haitian asylum seekers in the 1980s, Kretsedemas reaches into the past and stretches into the future to produce a paradigm-shifting vision of U.S. immigration policy. Black Interdictions retells a familiar history by exposing the ghosts and silences in legal texts, building a profound case for metanarratives of antiblackness that undergird and pervade the law. Kretsedemas’s meticulous analysis, in turn, shatters the silences endemic to migration and refugee studies, exposing the continuities of exclusion from law and humanity of black citizens and noncitizens alike.