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White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (Hardcover)
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White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (Hardcover)
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
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In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos
and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the
onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino
diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as
a method with which to disrupt epic conceptions of Filipino
history, Rafael treats in a condensed and concise manner clusters
of historical detail and reflections that do not easily fit into a
larger whole. "White Love and Other Events in Filipino History" is
thus a view of nationalism as an unstable production, as Rafael
reveals how, under what circumstances, and with what effects the
concept of the nation has been produced and deployed in the
Philippines.
With a focus on the contradictions and ironies that suffuse
Filipino history, Rafael delineates the multiple ways that
colonialism has both inhabited and enabled the nationalist
discourse of the present. His topics range from the colonial census
of 1903-1905, in which a racialized imperial order imposed by the
United States came into contact with an emergent revolutionary
nationalism, to the pleasures and anxieties of nationalist
identification as evinced in the rise of the Marcos regime. Other
essays examine aspects of colonial domesticity through the writings
of white women during the first decade of U.S. rule; the uses of
photography in ethnology, war, and portraiture; the circulation of
rumor during the Japanese occupation of Manila; the reproduction of
a hierarchy of languages in popular culture; and the spectral
presence of diasporic Filipino communities within the nation-state.
A critique of both U.S. imperialism and Filipino nationalism,
"White Love and Other Events in Filipino History" creates a sense
of epistemological vertigo in the face of former attempts to
comprehend and master Filipino identity.
This volume should become a valuable work for those interested in
Southeast Asian studies, Asian-American studies, postcolonial
studies, and cultural studies.
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