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<p>The term <i>imperial boomerang</i> names what happens when imperial ideologies of racism and violence abroad are brought back to and ravage the homeland. In the U.S. context, it has been over 10&#xa0;years since Michael Brown died at the hands of the Ferguson, Missouri, police department. In the aftermath of Brown’s death, protests erupted in the streets with cries of “Hands up; don’t shoot!” and “Black lives matter.” Another sensory irruption remained: the presence of military-grade armored trucks patrolling the streets, inflicting “law and order” on citizens. Utilizing a hermeneutical framework of moral injury, this essay argues that the violence perpetrated in our wars abroad serves as laboratory preparations for the racialized and politicized violence inflicted on U.S. citizens. This betrayal that is at the heart of imperial logic demands a reckoning, and it has counterhegemonic political pastoral possibilities.</p>

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First as Tragedy, Then as Betrayal: Moral Injury and Imperial Boomerangs

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    2025年10月31日

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  • Joshua T. Morris

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The term imperial boomerang names what happens when imperial ideologies of racism and violence abroad are brought back to and ravage the homeland. In the U.S. context, it has been over 10 years since Michael Brown died at the hands of the Ferguson, Missouri, police department. In the aftermath of Brown’s death, protests erupted in the streets with cries of “Hands up; don’t shoot!” and “Black lives matter.” Another sensory irruption remained: the presence of military-grade armored trucks patrolling the streets, inflicting “law and order” on citizens. Utilizing a hermeneutical framework of moral injury, this essay argues that the violence perpetrated in our wars abroad serves as laboratory preparations for the racialized and politicized violence inflicted on U.S. citizens. This betrayal that is at the heart of imperial logic demands a reckoning, and it has counterhegemonic political pastoral possibilities.