You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism

intelligence fusion is popping up not just in the environs of the United States but in countries all around the world. How intelligence fusion institutionalization is being emulated elsewhere is certainly an interesting research question that deserves future study. I also wondered how the rise of the workfarecarceral state and mass supervision intersects with the rise of so-called ‘‘smart’’ cities. On the methodological side of the coin, I wondered whether interviews and observations would yield as much fruit as freedom of information (FOI) requests could. It may be interesting to see what FOI requests can do when applied to studying intelligence fusion across the United States. In political terms, the one thing I have always wondered about with the pacification school of security studies is what sort of alternatives they are really proposing. The critique of more liberal or reform-oriented scholars is there, a classic foil. Pacification scholars flirt with abolition, but they do not develop a full-fledged abolitionist agenda of theory and practice. Pacification scholars flirt with radical politics, but they never fully develop an updated anarchist understanding of the contemporary state. These are contributions that I think remain to be made. Nevertheless, Pacifying the Homeland offers a critical sociology of the state and surveillance that should appeal to scholars and activists alike. This volume should be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars who examine surveillance and security.