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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.

Moonho 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.

Menaced Empire, out now from the University of California Press,

and coming soon to an interview here on The Dig.

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