Moon-Ho Jung is a professor of history at the University of Washington. He is the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2006), winner of the OAH Merle Curti Award, and Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (2022) and the editor of The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific (2014).
Providing an overview of a field that emerged in the struggles of student and community activists of the 1960s and 1970s, this lecture suggests how scholars and teachers might frame and approach Asian American history.