Editors' Note

CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal's primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas, which does not amount to a mere reiteration of its past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies that release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas.

Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global, and/or genealogical scholarship with implications for the Americas. CR recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that, therefore, questions of translation, dialogue, and border crossings (linguistic, cultural, national, and the like) are necessary for rethinking the foundations and limits of the Americas.

For forty-five years, CR has been a journal committed to interdisciplinarity, and we continue to encourage work that goes beyond a simple performance of the strategies of various disciplines and interdisciplines, and that, therefore, interrogates them.

"We must sacrifice some liberties for our security." The mantra of homeland security has been repeated so often that it has become a fundamental truth defining the parameters of acceptable discourse in the United States today. The appearance of democratic process is maintained by public debate and criticism—often vigorous—of executive policies, federal and state legislation, and judicial decisions. Yet the critique remains dutifully respectful of the boundaries imposed by the mantra: This liberty or that? For how long? And how much security are we gaining? The questions raised in this volume transgress that border, asking instead: Are these measures responsive to actual security concerns? Are the abuses entailed mere aberrations, as claimed, or do they reflect measures inherent in and necessary to maintaining the American Order? Does increasingly repressive state action enhance "our" security at all? Who is the "we" at issue? Whose homeland is being secured and for what ends? Natsu Taylor Saito edited this special issue; special thanks go to Georgia State University law student Karen Hamilton, as well as to Akilah Jenga and Ward Churchill.

We currently are soliciting work for Special Issues or Special Sections on the following topics, among others:

• • As/Am: Declarations of Asian America

• • W. E. B. Du Bois and the Thought of Another World

• • Hearings (lending an ear. . . .)