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Christine Hong’s new book, A Violent Peace: Race, US Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific, offers a radical account of the United State's transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity between US police actions in Asia and a rising police state at home. Writers including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. Du Bois discerned in domestic strategies to quell racial protests the same counterintelligence logic structuring America's devastating wars in Asia. 

Christine Hong is an Associate Professor of Literature and a principal faculty member in CRES. She is currently serving as the Director of the CRES Program, having previously served as the Undergraduate Director. In addition, Christine co-directs the CRJ along with Neda Atanasoski.

With respondents:

Neel Ahuja - Associate Professor, FMST / CRES

Alyosha Goldstein - Professor, American Studies, University of New Mexico

Co-sponsored by the Literature Department and Feminist Studies Department.