Unruly Pacific: American Crossroads

"This long-awaited original book excavates and traces visions, networks, and movements of pan-Asian anticolonial revolutionaries who vigorously struggled to defeat imperialism and white supremacy in Asia and the Pacific, from the Philippines and India to Hawai'i and California and beyond, against which the modern US national security state developed as a response."--Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents

"Magical. This is a book of breathtaking intellectual ambition with an admirable clarity of analysis and narration, despite the many challenging twists and turns and layers of the history under investigation."--Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of The Historian's Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present

"Menace to Empire shows how the twentieth-century clash between colonial violence and anticolonial rage in Asia played a central role in both US foreign policy abroad and racial formation at home. In this splendid book, Moon-Ho Jung's exhaustive research and persuasive writing make a singular contribution to scholarship and civic life by demonstrating that it was responses to revolutionary pan-Asian movements challenging racial capitalism in the twentieth century that led to the creation of the repressive US national security apparatuses that have undermined democracy ever since."--George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness