“The Imperial University Race, War, and the Nation-State” by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira examines the student led protests of The United State Universities such as the University of California Davis, and University of California Riverside. The book explains that the UC’s budget crisis has forced upon students a rise in tuition. Although these students work hard to get to these institutes of higher education, the tuition and costs punishes them as it continues to increase each year.
This book brings to light that the university and scholars have played an important role in the U.S. rationalization of expansionism, and repression in and outside of the U.S.
The “Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence” by Darrell Y. Hamamoto is a disturbing read. Hamamoto examines deaths by violence and murder, as well as the increase in these atrocities. He connects the increased alienation people feel in the increasingly complex society. There are historical patterns in the U.S. which have continued to manifest and change form. It began when Native Americans were systematically eradicated and expanded when the U.S. colonized the Philippines. The writing examines the variations in murder that have occurred including race murder, and cannibalism.
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