Menace to Empire
Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State
by Moon-Ho Jung
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date Feb 22 2022 | Archive Date Nov 01 2022
Talking about this book? Use #MenacetoEmpire #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!
Description
This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats to national security and exposes the antiradical and colonial origins of anti-Asian racism.
Menace to Empire transforms familiar themes in American history. This profoundly ambitious history of race and empire 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. Moon-Ho Jung argues that the US national security state as we know it was born out of attempts to repress and silence anticolonial subjects, from the Philippines and Hawaiʻi to California and beyond.
Jung examines how various revolutionary movements spanning the Pacific confronted the US empire. In response, the US state closely monitored and brutally suppressed those movements, exaggerating fears of pan-Asian solidarities and sowing 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 engendered and haunted the national security state—the heart and soul of the US empire ever since.
Advance Praise
"Moon-Ho Jung's brilliant and riveting history shows how the US security state was created to preserve its empire from revolutionary insurgencies in the Pacific. Turns out the 'Yellow Peril' was Black and Red and anticolonial and everywhere—Luzon to Lahore, Shanghai to San Francisco, Hawai'i to Harlem, Manila to Moscow to Mexico. No model minorities here; just gravediggers of imperialism and terrified agents of a settler state waging a war that continues to this day. Menace to Empire is one of those earth-shattering books that will force us all to rethink the entire twentieth century."—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"Magical. This is a book of breathtaking intellectual ambition with an admirable clarity of analysis and narration, despite the many challenging twists and turns and layers of the history under investigation."—Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of The Historian's Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780520267480 |
PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 368 |