Metroimperial Intimacies : fantasy, racial-sexual governance, and the Philippines in U.S. imperialism, 1899-1913 / Victor Román Mendoza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendoza, Victor Román, 1976- author.

Series:

Perverse modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--Social aspects--Philippines--History--20th century.

Colonial administrators.

History.

Imperialism--Social aspects.

Imperialism.

United States--Territories and possessions--History--20th century.

Colonial administrators--Philippines--Attitudes--History--20th century.

United States--Foreign relations--Philippines.

United States.

International relations.

Philippines.

Philippines--Foreign relations--United States.

Colonial administrators--Attitudes.

Diplomatic relations.

United States territories and possessions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Summary:

In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies-whether expressed through friendship, love, or eroticism-threatened U.S. gender and sexuality norms. To codify U.S. heteronormative behavior, the colonial government prohibited anything loosely defined as perverse, which along with popular representations of Filipinos, regulated colonial subjects and depicted them as sexually available, diseased, and degenerate. Mendoza analyzes laws, military records, the writing of Philippine students in the United States, and popular representations of Philippine colonial subjects to show how their lives, bodies, and desires became the very battleground for the consolidation of repressive legal, economic, and political institutions and practices of the U.S. colonial state. By highlighting the importance of racial and gendered violence in maintaining control at home and abroad, Mendoza demonstrates that studies of U.S. sexuality must take into account the reach and impact of U.S. imperialism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Racial-sexual governance and the US colonial state in the Philippines

Unmentionable liberties : a racial-sexual differend in the US colonial Philippines

Menacing receptivity : Philippine insurrectos and the sublime object of metroimperial visual culture

The Sultan of Sulu's epidemic of intimacies

Certain peculiar temptations : little brown students and racial-sexual governance in the metropole.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.

ISBN:

9780822360193

0822360195

9780822360346

0822360349

OCLC:

903674955