Enduring Empire

katrina quisumbing king is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University.

"This compelling debut work from one of our most promising young historical sociologists unveils how US empire operates not from clear lines of domination but from the profound power of ambiguity stemming from racialization embedded in structures of imperial control. A masterful contribution to historical sociologies of US empire, Philippine history, racism and state theory - all at once." -Julian Go, author of Policing Empires "Methodically rigorous, clearly written, and engaged with cutting-edge literatures, Enduring Empire is a truly remarkable book. Building on a substantial, carefully assembled research base, it brings innovative social scientific analysis to bear on the tangled history of race, empire, and statecraft in the United States and the Philippines." -Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Enduring Empire's key contribution is to move beyond the question of 'whether"' the US was an empire and tell us 'how' it worked (and continues to work) as an empire. This fascinating study of the Philippines shows not just the process through which a larger racialized structure of US imperial rule was fashioned and then refashioned, but also to explain why and when this happened. A significant contribution." -Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University