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Erin Murphy has delivered a historical tour de force that challenges the erasure of Black women, Black men, Filipino/as, and White women from the anti-imperialist movement. Far from being simply a narrative about the past, however, the book is vital reading for anyone who wishes to understand and resist imperialist aggression in the present. Murphy convincingly demonstrates that what we deny about our past not only empowers political divisions in the present, but also limits our imaginative capacities as to how ordinary people bearing 'ethical witness' can drive transformative social change.--Zine Magubane, Boston College

Erin Murphy has delivered a historical tour de force that challenges the erasure of Black women, Black men, Filipino/as, and White women from the anti-imperialist movement. Far from being simply a narrative about the past, however, the book is vital reading for anyone who wishes to understand and resist imperialist aggression in the present. Murphy convincingly demonstrates that what we deny about our past not only empowers political divisions in the present, but also limits our imaginative capacities as to how ordinary people bearing 'ethical witness' can drive transformative social change.--Zine Magubane, Boston College In this insightful, heartbreaking, yet hopeful work, Erin Murphy uses the United States' imperial history in the Philippines to ask how everyday citizens can resist and stand witness to atrocities committed in their name. This book is a monument to careful historical research done in the service of urgent present-day questions.--Nicholas Wilson, Stony Brook University

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Erin L. Murphy is an independent scholar with a doctorate in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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