Menace to Empire

Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the Us Security State Volume 63
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-26748-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 368 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jung, Moon-Ho

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Worlds Empire Made

Introduction: Reckoning with History and Empire
1. Suppressing Anarchy and Sedition
2. Conflating Race and Revolution
3. Fighting John Bull and Uncle Sam
4. Radicalizing Hawai'i
5. Red and Yellow Make Orange
6. Collaboration and Revolution

Conclusion: America Is Not in the Heart

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation.