Metroimperial Intimacies

Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913

AvVictor Román Mendoza

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor RomÁn Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies-whether expressed through friendship, love, or eroticism-threatened U.S. gender and sexuality norms. To codify U.S. heteronormative behavior, the colonial government prohibited anything loosely defined as perverse, which along with popular representations of Filipinos, regulated colonial subjects and depicted them as sexually available, diseased, and degenerate. Mendoza analyzes laws, military records, the writing of Philippine students in the United States, and popular representations of Philippine colonial subjects to show how their lives, bodies, and desires became the very battleground for the consolidation of repressive legal, economic, and political institutions and practices of the U.S. colonial state. By highlighting the importance of racial and gendered violence in maintaining control at home and abroad, Mendoza demonstrates that studies of U.S. sexuality must take into account the reach and impact of U.S. imperialism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822360346

Utforska kategorier

HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Victor RomÁn Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and English at the University of Michigan.

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"... Metroimperial Intimacies demonstrates the multifaceted ways in which the United States attempted to manage the chaotic categories of race and sex in the new colony. Although not the first scholar to examine political cartoons and pensionado writing, Mendoza treads new ground in his attention to how male same-sex intimacy registered in these genres, enlarging our understanding of how colonial anxieties about race and sex shaped the social, legal, and cultural spaces of U.S.–Philippine relations." - Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (Journal of Interdisciplinary History) "Victor RomÁn Mendoza demonstrates that the history of American empire in the early-twentieth century Philippines can indeed be queered through intrepid research and savvy analysis. . . . [T]he analysis ranges from pathbreaking to brilliant." - Kristin Hoganson (Canadian Journal of History) "Using a queer of color critique, Metroimperial Intimacies provides an innovative and much-needed study of social and sexual intimacies within the context of the early years of U.S. imperial colonialism in the Philippines." - Genevieve Clutario (Journal of American History)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Racial-Sexual Governance and the U.S. Colonial State in the Philippines 352. Unmentionable Liberties: A Racial-Sexual Differend in the U.S. Colonial Philippines 633. Menacing Receptivity: Philippine Insurrectos and the Sublime Object of Metroimperial Visual Culture 954. The Sultan of Sulu's Epidemic of Intimacies 1315. Certain Peculiar Temptations: Little Brown Students and Racial-Sexual Governance in the Metropole 167Conclusion 203Notes 211Bibliography 259Index 279