Michael Schulze-Oechtering is an assistant professor of history at California State University East Bay. He received his PhD in comparative ethnic studies at the University of Cali...view moreMichael Schulze-Oechtering is an assistant professor of history at California State University East Bay. He received his PhD in comparative ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research uses social movement history and comparative ethnic studies to explore how communities of color in the United States have both questioned and crossed racial boundaries. His research has been published by the Amerasia Journal and Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies. His current book project, No Separate Peace: Black and Filipinx Workers and the Labor of Solidarity in the Pacific Northwest, is currently under contract with the University of Washington Press and examines the parallel and overlapping activist traditions and grassroots organizing practices of Filipinx cannery workers in Alaska and Black construction workers in Seattle between the 1970s and the early 2000s.view less