White Citizenship: A Category of Identification and Route of US Immigrant Constitution

• Main Author: Perez, Ma. Socorro Q
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: “desire to be white; ” disidentification; ethnicity; performativity; Ilocano-Hawaiian diasporic identity; Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Culture
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/114; https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/KK2017.02813
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The “desire to be white” observed amongst Filipino/Ilocano-Hawaiian immigrants is not a mere personal resolve nor a sole act of individual decision. It is an aspiration driven by the ideology of “white ideal,” the discourse of middle class success, and deepened/straited by the historical junctures s...