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OAH Distinguished Lectureship program 40 years 1981-2021

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OAH Distinguished Lectureship program 40 years 1981-2021

Moon-Ho Jung

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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).

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Framing Asian American History

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.

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Focusing on the U.S. state’s efforts to monitor and contain anticolonial revolutionary movements in the Philippines, Hawai'i, and the Pacific Coast in the first half of the twentieth century, this talk traces the varied and extended genealogies of revolution, sedition, and empire across the Pacific.
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.
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.

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