Journeys in Asian American History: A Forum on Gordon H. Chang’s War, Race, and Culture

This forum, which coincided with the publication of Gordon H. Chang’s War, Race, and Culture: Journeys in Trans-Pacific and Asian American Histories (2025), gathers six scholars who offer their reflection on the volume as well as the career of Chang, a distinguished scholar and pivotal figure in the field of Asian American history. Their remarks trace the outlines of a fascinating intellectual trajectory, from revolutionary Marxist to historian of empire, art, and Asian American life, and an expansive oeuvre marked by an abiding insistence that we take race seriously across fields that long ignored it, and that we do so accessibly. The forum concludes with a response from Gordon Chang.