“Little Brown Brothers”: Height and the Philippine–American Colonial Encounter (1898–1946)

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Lasco, Gideon; University
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol66/iss3/5; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4307/viewcontent/6469.pdf
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

Thisarticle looks at how scientific racism, biomedicine, public health, sports, and a nascent bureaucracy intersected in the making of height (human stature) as an important attribute of individuals and populations during the Philippine–American colonial encounter. In relation to the “tall” American...