The story is based on an oral history with Aiko Tengan Tokunaga, who offers one interpretation of a complex period of historical violence in which US and Japanese militarism, and centuries of Japanese colonialism, intersect to oppress, subjugate, and destroy Okinawan and Ryukyuan communities.

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Together with white allies and Chinese across the Pacific, Chinese denizens of the United States formed one of the largest civil disobedience movements of their century. At stake was the future of exclusion and the avenues of belonging for Chinese in America.

In 1892, the Geary Act dramatically expanded Chinese exclusion by requiring all Chinese immigrants in the United States to register, under threat of deportation. This article unearths the transpacific networks of people and ideas that are revealed by, and mobilized against, the Geary Act.

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While our team was busy preparing this outlook, we also posted a brief summary of the three ARs that brought heavy precipitation to portions of Washington, Oregon, and northern California last week.

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