Cheryl Harris

And even now when people from both sides of the aisle even are questioning the excesses of Trump's border regime, we are not seeing a dismantling or unmooring of this certainty that we live in a world defined by exclusionary nation states.

And in the book particularly, I try and explore what particular kind of certainty that is, and the way I see it, it, it, it's a kind of status property along the lines of how Cheryl Harris, the legal scholar, spoke about whiteness as property, which is not to say the ownership of white skin, but as a set of property relations with, um, the expectation of futural certainty of benefit.

And that is how border regimes, the modern propertized logic of exclusion and the expectation of exclusion gives shape to border rule and border logics, and also gives texture to the sort of resentment and white supremacist bitterness that gives so much shape to the popularity of border fascism.

We do ourselves favors on the left to understand the kind of logics and the kind of certainties that are underpinning what is taken as a given of politics.

Um, [clears throat] I understand the mayor has been getting some criticism from some hyper-nationalist folks here in the city, but, you know, uh, fortunately, he just brushes that off his shoulder.

Um, got a chance to, to see Sister, uh, Cheryl Harris, one of the titans as legal scholar and, and, uh, sister who is working along with a team of others, including my brother Justin Hansford, who's here.

He's gonna present today on the seventh edition of Derrick Bell's landmark legal textbook, casebook, uh, textbook as well, Race, Racism, and American Law.

Very excited on the next edition 'cause I use that book in the class I teach at Howard.

And in the book, particularly, I try and explore what particular kind of certainty that is.

And the way I see it, it's a kind of status property along the lines of how Cheryl Harris, the legal scholar, spoke about whiteness as property, which is not to say the ownership of white skin, but as a set of property relations with the expectation of futural success.

certainty of benefit.

And that is how border regimes, their modern propertized logic of exclusion and the expectation of exclusion gives shape to border rule and border logics, and also gives texture to the sort of resentment and white supremacist bitterness that gives so much shape to the popularity of border fascism.