Bitter Fruits: On Ferguson and the Ghosts of the Philippine-American War

I’ve got a new essay up over at Hyphen, a meditation on Michael Brown, Ferguson, state violence, and American imperialism. It’s also about my life as a writer of color living in a white neighborhood and my relationship to history. 

http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2014/08/bitter-fruits-ferguson-and-ghosts-philippine-american-war#sthash.Cd2sdyTs.dpuf