"Suspended Apocalypse" is a rich and provocative meditation on
the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history.
Culling from historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan
Rodriguez provides a sophisticated analysis of the Filipino
presence in the American imaginary. Radically critiquing current
conceptions of Filipino American identity, community, and history,
he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, rooted in the early
twentieth-century military, political, and cultural subjugation of
the Philippines by the United States.
"Suspended Apocalypse" critically addresses what Rodriguez calls
"Filipino American communion," interrogating redemptive and
romantic notions of Filipino migration and settlement in the United
States in relation to larger histories of race, colonial conquest,
and white supremacy. Contemporary popular and scholarly discussions
of the Filipino American are, he asserts, inseparable from their
origins in the violent racist regimes of the United States and its
historical successor, liberal multiculturalism.
Rodriguez deftly contrasts the colonization of the Philippines
with present-day disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Mount
Pinatubo to show how the global subjection of Philippine, black,
and indigenous peoples create a linked history of genocide. But in
these juxtapositions, Rodriguez finds moments and spaces of radical
opportunity. Engaging the violence and disruption of the Filipino
condition sets the stage, he argues, for the possibility of a
transformation of the political lens through which contemporary
empire might be analyzed, understood, and perhaps even
overcome.
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