{"id":7274,"date":"2024-07-10T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7274"},"modified":"2024-07-10T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:19:33","slug":"brandeis-invites-suh-to-discuss-the-allure-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2024\/07\/10\/brandeis-invites-suh-to-discuss-the-allure-of-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandeis Invites Suh to Discuss ‘The Allure of Empire’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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0060801-23KH\nChris Suh, Assistant Professor US in the World; Asian American History; Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; the Progressive Era enviro portrait \nF\/Emory News Ctr\nApril Hunt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Earlier this year Dr. Chris Suh<\/a>, Assistant Professor of History, delivered a lecture for Brandeis University entitled “Between the \u2018American Century\u2019 and the \u2018Asian Century\u2019: Toward a New Paradigm for Understanding Racial Inequality.” Drawing on his 2023 book The Allure of Empire<\/em>: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion<\/em><\/a> (Oxford UP), Suh\u2019s lecture addressed the influence of American geopolitical interests on Asian race relations as well as historical and contemporary racial tensions in the US. Student journalist Sophia De Lisi covered the lecture for the Justice<\/em>, Brandeis\u2019s independent student newspaper. Find a quote from her insightful article below, along with the full piece: \u201cProfessor Chris Suh explains how American geopolitics inform Asian race-relations<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLike all books, my book is a product of its time,\u201d Professor Suh said. \u201cI was writing it in the late 2010s, and the early 2020s, where there was a lot of anxiety about whether U.S. international dominance was finally coming to an end.\u201d He explained that the second half of the 20th Century was characterized by the United States\u2019 Cold War victory against the Soviet Union, and that this victory gave the U.S. the foundation necessary to lead an \u201cunipolar world order.\u201d Suh referenced Henry Luce\u2019s essay,\u00a0\u201cThe American Century\u201d<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to expand on this period of global dominance that the U.S. had built over the 20th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suh explained that despite the U.S.\u2019 past successes, the 21st Century has seen potential for Asian countries \u2014 given their rising economic, military and political power \u2014 to overtake the lead that the United States has held for the last century. He expanded on the Biden administration\u2019s current foreign policy strategy in Asia, stating that it is \u201cvery much a resumption\u201d of former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration policy, known as\u00a0\u201cPivot to Asia\u201d<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cRebalance to Asia and the Pacific.\u201d<\/u><\/a>\u00a0Suh said that the intent of these policies was to both reduce tensions in the Middle East after the Iraq and Afghanistan War and give the U.S. a way to enter \u201cstrategic alliances\u201d with Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand \u201cin response to the rise of the [People\u2019s Republic of China.]\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year Dr. Chris Suh, Assistant Professor of History, delivered a lecture for Brandeis University entitled “Between the \u2018American Century\u2019 and the \u2018Asian Century\u2019: Toward a New Paradigm for Understanding Racial Inequality.” Drawing on his 2023 book The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7276,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}