New Imperialisms
Issue 95, Spring 2006

Editors' Introduction
Mansour Bonakdarian

FEATURES

The Global War against Teachers
Vijay Prashad

Invisible Empire: Visual Culture, Embodied Spectacle, and Abu Ghraib
Nicholas Mirzoeff

Importing Hegemony: Library Information Systems and U.S. Hegemony in Canada and Latin America
Ed McKennon

Surveillance Creep! New Manifestations of Data Surveillance at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Preemptive Media

REFLECTIONS

Second Empire; or, The Eighteenth Brumaire of George W. Bush
Michael Hardt

Refractions Off Empire: Untimely Comparisons in Harsh Times
Ann Laura Stoler and David Bond

A New Kind of Imperialism
Hakim Adi

INTERVIEW

Anti-imperialism and Its Discontents: An Interview with Mark Rudd, Founding Member of the Weather Underground
Sina Rahmani

TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY

Arendt's Lesson: The Challenge and Need for Teaching Empire in the Present
Christopher Joon-Hai Lee

FORUM

Introduction: The Fate of Nationalisms in the Age of Bandung
Antoinette Burton, Augusto Espiritu, and Fanon Che Wilkins

Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 1945-1954
Antoinette Burton

"To Carry Water on Both Shoulders": Carlos P. Romulo, American Empire, and the Meanings of Bandung
Augusto Espiritu

Beyond Bandung: The Critical Nationalism of Lorraine Hansberry, 1950-1965
Fanon Che Wilkins

(RE)VIEWS

Old Imperialisms and New Imperial Histories: Rethinking the History of the Present
Review of Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.
James L. Hevia, English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Betty Joseph, Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Philippa Levine, Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
Kathleen Wilson

The Price of Freedom Is Truth
Review of The Price of Freedom, permanent exhibition, National Museum of American History/Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Carol Burke

Terror Lit
Review of Jeffory A. Clymer, America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Robert Perkinson

Race, Nation, and Empire in a Blackened World
Review of Ivan Eland, The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed. Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, 2004.
Andrew Ross and Kristin Ross, eds., Anti-Americanism. New York: New York University Press, 2004.
Jared Sexton

About Baghdad
Review of About Baghdad, dir. Adam Shapiro et al. InCounter Productions, 2005. DVD.
Mark LeVine

REMEMBRANCE

François Ngolet, 1961-2005
Andor Skotnes

Susan Porter Benson, 1943-2005
Sharon Hartman Strom

The Abusable Past
R.J. Lambrose

Notes on Contributors

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