In the Wake of Terror inquires into the historical conditions and possibilities of radical change in the post-9/11 world of globalized capitalism. E. San Juan, Jr. focuses on numerous problems, including those of racism, class antagonisms, and subalternity in the United States. Global violence is also examined in relation to the anti-imperialist struggle of diverse communities in the Philippines. Analytic and critical,In the Wake of Terror is wide-ranging in scope and provocative in challenging orthodox opinions on the nature of neoliberal transnational domination and postmodernist multiculturalism. Its interdisciplinary, cross-cultural engagement with urgent contemporary issues aims to "disturb the peace" and usher in an interrogation of predatory hegemonic assumptions. Written from a historical materialist perspective, this work of cultural criticism is of interest to the academic or lay person.

"In the Wake of Terror: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the Postmodern World, demonstrates a remarkable continuity....[It] establishes the no nonsense radicalism of San Juan, his advocacy of a critical and militant praxis, which is a clear departure from the politics of the rest of his tribe." - Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

"In the Wake of Terror provides a powerful assessment of various mainstream theorists who speak to the issue of 'race.' The book is an important resource to understand how academic understandings of 'race' have become consumed in interstitial and nuanced enigmas. . . . His work offers the discipline of education a needed internationalist framwork to address the globalization of racism." - San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, October 4, 2009