Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America Diaz Josen Masangkay
Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America Diaz Josen Masangkay In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America…
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Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America Diaz Josen Masangkay
In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity. By analyzing Philippine-US state programs for military operations, labor and immigration reform, and development and modernization plans, she shows how anticommunist liberalism and authoritarianism shaped the visibility and recognition of new forms of Filipino subjectivity. Diaz explores how the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and US policies during the Cold War that supported the regime defined the relationship between "Filipino" and "America" in ways that influenced the creation of a gendered and racialized Filipino American subject.
Tracing the rise of various social formations that emerged under the Marcos regime and US programs for liberal reform, from transnational Filipino and US culture and the immigrant returnee to
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