Menace to empire : anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state / Moon-Ho Jung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jung, Moon-Ho, 1969- Author.

Series:

American crossroads ; 63.

American crossroads ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-imperialist movements--Pacific Area--History--20th century.

Anti-imperialist movements.

Anti-racism--Pacific Area--History--20th century.

Anti-racism.

Asians--Social conditions--20th century.

Asians.

Political violence--Pacific Area--History--20th century.

Political violence.

United States--Territories and possessions--History--20th century.

United States.

Asians--Social conditions.

Pacific Area.

Genre:

History.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

xiv, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Menace to Empire is a profoundly original and ambitious book, a history of race and empire that traces both the colonial violence and the anticolonial rage that the United States spread across the Pacific between the Philippine-American War and World War II. Author Moon-Ho Jung argues that the US national security state as we know it was born out of attempts to repress and silence colonized subjects, from the Philippines and Hawai'i to California and beyond, whose anticolonial aspirations challenged US claims to sovereignty. Jung examines how the contradictions of race, nation, and empire generated waves of revolutionary movements spanning the Pacific--anticolonial, antiracist, and labor movements that exposed and confronted the US empire. In response, the US state closely monitored and brutally suppressed those movements by racializing particular politics and distinct communities as seditious, exaggerating fears of pan-Asian solidarities and sowing anti-Asian racism under the guise of national security. Menace to Empire transforms familiar themes in American history to highlight the critical role of colonial violence in the formation of radical movements and the antiradical origins of anti-Asian racism. Radicalized by their opposition to the US empire and racialized as threats to US security, peoples in and from Asia pursued a revolutionary politics that gave rise to the national security state--the heart and soul of the US empire ever since"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue. Worlds empire made

Introduction. Reckoning with history and empire

Suppressing anarchy and sedition

Conflating race and revolution

Fighting John Bull and Uncle Sam

Radicalizing Hawai'i

Red and yellow make orange

Collaboration and revolution

Conclusion. America is not in the heart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520267480

0520267486

OCLC:

1259295050