2022Journal article
Mark Tseng-Putterman
American Quarterly
Making Race through War: Militarism and Liberalism in Cold War Asia Mark Tseng-Putterman (bio) Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization. By Jini Kim Watson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. 272 pages. $105 (cloth). $30.00 (paper). The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History. By Monica Kim. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 452 pages. $35.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific. By Simeon Man. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 272 pages. $85.00 (cloth). $29.95 (paper). A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. By Christine Hong. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 320 pages. $90.00 (cloth). $30.00 (paper). During his first presidential visit to Asia in 2009, Barack Obama put forth his aggressive vision of United States regional policy in the terms of cultural affinity and intimate kinship. Standing before the crowd of Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Obama recommitted to the US-Japan alliance as the cornerstone of his administration’s coming “pivot to Asia.” Alongside policy platitudes about security partnerships and trade deals, Obama sprinkled his address with personal anecdotes. Sharing childhood recollections of eating matcha ice cream while visiting Japan, his upbringing in Hawai‘i and Indonesia, and the marriage of his sister, Maya, to a Chinese Canadian, Obama posed his personal transpacific experiences within a broader, multicultural political framework. The United States, Obama argued, was a “nation of the Pacific,” shaped both by the patriotic contributions of Asian Americans and by the generations of Americans of all backgrounds whose transpacific…
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Mark Tseng-Putterman. (2022). Making Race through War: Militarism and Liberalism in Cold War Asia. American Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2022.0026
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2022.0026 · Cited by 1 (OpenAlex)
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