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).
How did thousands of Chinese workers end up working alongside African American workers in Louisiana after the Civil War? Through these plantation workers' stories, this lecture explores the local and global roots of race and emancipation.
