Victor Román Mendoza

Metroimperial Intimacies

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

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Produktbeschreibung

In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360193
• ISBN-10: 0822360195
• Artikelnr.: 42407410

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Racial-Sexual Governance and the U.S. Colonial State in the Philippines 
35
2. Unmentionable Liberties: A Racial-Sexual Differend in the U.S. Colonial
Philippines  63
3. Menacing Receptivity: Philippine Insurrectos and the Sublime Object of
Metroimperial Visual Culture  95
4. The Sultan of Sulu's Epidemic of Intimacies  131
5. Certain Peculiar Temptations: Little Brown Students and Racial-Sexual
Governance in the Metropole  167
Conclusion  203
Notes  211
Bibliography  259
Index  279