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and by University of California Press, which has loads of great titles, perfect for

dig listeners like you.

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 U.S. 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 U.S. Empire and

how, in response, the U.S. government closely monitored and brutally suppressed them, exaggerating

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

Racialized as threats to U.S. security, peoples in and from Asia pursued a revolutionary

politics that engendered and haunted the National Security State, the heart and soul of

the U.S. Empire ever since.

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

interview here on the DIG.

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