He will give a talk titled, "Revisiting the Color Line: Toward a Broader Vision of Race and Region in (Asian) American History."He is the author of "Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), which won the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. He is at work on a second book project, currently titled "The Radical Pacific: Asian American Political Struggles in the Age of Empire."