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One that you might like is Menace to Empire by Moon Ho-jung.

Menace to Empire is a profoundly ambitious history of race and empire that traces both

the colonial violence and the anti-colonial 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 anti-colonial subjects from the Philippines and Hawaii to California and beyond.

Jung examines how revolutionary movements spanning the Pacific confronted US Empire and

how, in response, the US government closely monitored and brutally suppressed them, exaggerating

fears of pan-Asian solidarity and sowing anti-Asian racism.

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.

Most Empire, out now from the University of California Press, and coming soon to an interview

here on the DIG.

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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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