HISTORY 152A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: National Security, Strike Action, White Supremacy
27 Nov 2017
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Currents: interracial solidarities, imperial japan, and the u. s. As radical appeals for interracial movements against white supremacy and colonialism echoed around the world, from harlem to hawai i and beyond, the. He"s looking at analyzing how strikes in hawaii were also addressed. He"s interested in looking at u. s. national apparatus. He opens with how the u. s. state develops surveillance but looks for ways to suppress radical politics. Helps put into context what the u. s. government is going to do in hawaii. That is, the emergence of the modern nation-state proved integral to rationalizing, advancing, and eliding empire, processes that interracial labor movements in hawai i and elsewhere exposed and challenged. Modern nation state always worked with or was adjacent to empire. Empire is at the heart of modernity and the modern system. He"s looking at this case study of workers in hawaii because these issues can be exposed and challenged.
