From Exile to Diaspora
Subtitle: The Filipino Experience in the United States
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780813331706
Subjects: Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Civil rights & citizenship; Ethnic studies; Immigration & emigration; Philippines; USA; Ethnology
First sentence: by Filipinos side by side with Americans in Bataan and Corregidor during World War II has inscribed the image of the Filipino freedom fighter practicing racial solidarity in the annals of U.S.-Philippine relations. MacArthur and Magsaysay became, for the chroniclers of "special relations" between subaltern and colonizer, the two symbols linking the two races-an emblem of persistent dependency and patronage.