Positively No Filipinos Allowed : Building Communities and Discourse.

By: Tiongson, Antonio TContributor(s): Gutierrez, Edgardo V | Gutierrez, Ricardo VMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Asian American History and Cultu SerPublisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (274 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781592131235Subject(s): Community life -- United States | Filipino Americans -- Ethnic identity | Filipino Americans -- History | Filipino Americans -- Social conditions | Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Philippines | Racism -- United States | United States -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Positively No Filipinos Allowed : Building Communities and DiscourseDDC classification: 305.89/921073 LOC classification: E184Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Critical Considerations -- I IMPERIAL LEGACIES AND FILIPINO SUBJECTIVITIES -- 1 Patterns of Reform, Repetition, and Return in the First Centennial of the Filipino Revolution, 1896-1996 -- 2 On Filipinos, Filipino Americans, and U.S. Imperialism -- 3 Filipino Bodies, Lynching, and the Language of Empire -- 4 "Just Ten Years Removed from a Bolo and a Breech-cloth" -- II PUBLIC POLICY, LAW, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FILIPINOS -- 5 Losing Little Manila -- 6 Filipino Americans, Foreigner Discrimination, and the Lines of Racial Sovereignty -- III RECONFIGURING THE SCOPE OF FILIPINO POLITICS -- 7 On the Politics of (Filipino) Youth Culture -- 8 Colonial Amnesia -- IV RESIGNIFYING "FILIPINO AMERICAN" -- 9 "A Million Deaths?" -- 10 Reflections on the Trajectory of Filipino/a American Studies -- 11 Do You Mis(recognize) Me -- 12 A Different Breed of Filipino Balikbayans -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index.
Summary: From the perspectives of ethnic studies, history, literary criticism, and legal studies, the original essays in this volume examine the ways in which the colonial history of the Philippines has shaped Filipino American identity, culture, and community formation. The contributors address the dearth of scholarship in the field as well as show how an understanding of this complex history provides a foundation for new theoretical frameworks for Filipino American studies.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Critical Considerations -- I IMPERIAL LEGACIES AND FILIPINO SUBJECTIVITIES -- 1 Patterns of Reform, Repetition, and Return in the First Centennial of the Filipino Revolution, 1896-1996 -- 2 On Filipinos, Filipino Americans, and U.S. Imperialism -- 3 Filipino Bodies, Lynching, and the Language of Empire -- 4 "Just Ten Years Removed from a Bolo and a Breech-cloth" -- II PUBLIC POLICY, LAW, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FILIPINOS -- 5 Losing Little Manila -- 6 Filipino Americans, Foreigner Discrimination, and the Lines of Racial Sovereignty -- III RECONFIGURING THE SCOPE OF FILIPINO POLITICS -- 7 On the Politics of (Filipino) Youth Culture -- 8 Colonial Amnesia -- IV RESIGNIFYING "FILIPINO AMERICAN" -- 9 "A Million Deaths?" -- 10 Reflections on the Trajectory of Filipino/a American Studies -- 11 Do You Mis(recognize) Me -- 12 A Different Breed of Filipino Balikbayans -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index.

From the perspectives of ethnic studies, history, literary criticism, and legal studies, the original essays in this volume examine the ways in which the colonial history of the Philippines has shaped Filipino American identity, culture, and community formation. The contributors address the dearth of scholarship in the field as well as show how an understanding of this complex history provides a foundation for new theoretical frameworks for Filipino American studies.

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