Empire and Globalization: On the Recent Study of the Philippines in the United States

• Main Author: Rafael, Vicente L.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: affective economies; colonialism; feminized labor; history from below; immigration; war and race
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss16/8; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1206/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n16_2011_5D_203.2_ForumKritika_Rafael.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This short paper traces two of the more important developments in the study of the Philippines in the United States in the wake of critiques regarding American Orientalism in the late 1990s. The first is a rediscovery of the American empire at the heart of US national history, and by implication, of...