Class Detail

Against dominant framings of the Korean War, which left 4 million Koreans dead, as the freeing of the Korean people by the United States from the forces of global communism, this course reconsiders the war, which has never formally ended, from below and to the left, namely, through the lenses of multigenerational people's struggles against fascism and imperialism. Through collaborative, participatory research, students materialize from the ashbin of history what might be called a people's archive of the Korean War.

Enrollment in the associated discussion section is mandatory.
From the Instructor: In this course, we will examine how the United States, by seizing the Korean War in order to consolidate its global hegemony, created a formidable infrastructure of unfreedom and imperial violence, including the national security state, military-industrial complex, Cold War university, and global empire of bases, all of which persist to this day. At the same time, we will retrieve from history?s ashbin the many forms anti-imperialist opposition to the war have taken, including the international solidarity efforts of Black radicals in the United States who in the early Cold War period denounced U.S. war intervention as imperialist aggression, linking ?police action? in Korea to a rising domestic police state. Through collaborative participatory research, we will also seek to materialize from the ashbin of history what might be called a people?s archive of the Korean War.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
	Online	Hong,C.	07/28/25 - 08/29/25