Moon-Ho Jung is an associate 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 the editor of The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific (2014). He is currently completing a book entitled "The Unruly Pacific: Race and the Politics of Empire and Revolution, 1898–1941."
Focusing on the U.S. state’s efforts to monitor and contain anticolonial and labor movements in the Philippines, Hawai'i, and the U.S. metropole in the first half of the twentieth century, this talk traces the varied and extended genealogies of revolution, sedition, and empire across the Pacific.