Review of "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" by Christine Hong (Stanford University Press)
Christine Hong’s "A Violent Peace" examines local and global democratization projects and the many ways that postwar US military tactics and strategies functioned to suppress both counterrevolutionaries abroad in Asia and Black radicals at home in the US. Through literary and visual analys...
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| description | Christine Hong’s "A Violent Peace" examines local and global democratization projects and the many ways that postwar US military tactics and strategies functioned to suppress both counterrevolutionaries abroad in Asia and Black radicals at home in the US. Through literary and visual analyses of works by Ralph Ellison, Ōe Kenzaburō, Miné Okubo, Carlos Bulosan, James Baldwin, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Hong questions how to navigate US post-World War II policies that claim a period of democratized “peace” and racial integration while simultaneously dehumanizing “foreign” bodies through military tactics that police cultural and political belonging. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca4d5b7dbfa5412e9b26a3b59bb042c32022-12-22T00:23:54ZengCultural Studies AssociationLateral2469-40532022-02-0111110.25158/L11.1.8Review of "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" by Christine Hong (Stanford University Press)Annie Hui0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9894-4565George Mason UniversityChristine Hong’s "A Violent Peace" examines local and global democratization projects and the many ways that postwar US military tactics and strategies functioned to suppress both counterrevolutionaries abroad in Asia and Black radicals at home in the US. Through literary and visual analyses of works by Ralph Ellison, Ōe Kenzaburō, Miné Okubo, Carlos Bulosan, James Baldwin, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Hong questions how to navigate US post-World War II policies that claim a period of democratized “peace” and racial integration while simultaneously dehumanizing “foreign” bodies through military tactics that police cultural and political belonging.https://csalateral.org/reviews/a-violent-peace-race-us-militarism-democratization-cold-war-asia-pacific-hong-hui/cold warmilitarismracedemocracyasia |
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| title | Review of "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" by Christine Hong (Stanford University Press) |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Review of "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" by Christine Hong (Stanford University Press) |
| title_short | Review of "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" by Christine Hong (Stanford University Press) |
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