Metroimperial Intimacies
Subtitle: fantasy, racial-sexual governance, and the Philippines in U.S. imperialism, 1899-1913
By: Victor Román Mendoza
Contributors: Duke University Press
Series: Perverse modernities; Perverse modernities
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780822360193; 9780822360346; 9780822374862
Subjects: Colonial administrators; Social aspects; United States territories and possessions; Imperialism; Attitudes; Diplomatic relations; Territories and possessions; Foreign relations; History
Description: In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Rom©Łn Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Racial-sexual governance and the US colonial state in the Philippines; title: Unmentionable liberties : a racial-sexual differend in the US colonial Philippines; title: Menacing receptivity : Philippine insurrectos and the sublime object of metroimperial visual culture; title: The Sultan of Sulu's epidemic of intimacies; title: Certain peculiar temptations : little brown students and racial-sexual governance in the metropole.