American mestizos, the Philippines, and the malleability of race : 1898-1961 / Nicholas Trajano Molnar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molnar, Nicholas Trajano, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amerasians--Philippines--History--20th century.

Amerasians.

Children of military personnel--Philippines--History--20th century.

Children of military personnel.

Race relations.

History.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Philippines--Race relations.

Philippines.

Physical Description:

ix, 199 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2017]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Drawing the "Color Line" in the Philippines: White and Black Bachelor Colonization and Initial Reactions to the Emergence or the American Mestizos 11

Chapter 2 Picaninnies, Plump American Babies, and Abandoned Half-Castes: Early Racializations of the American Mestizos in the United States and the Philippines 25

Chapter 3 Leonard Wood and the American Guardian Association: Resolving the American Mestizo "Problem" in the Philippines 51

Chapter 4 Reactions to the Concept of the American Mestizo in the United States 79

Chapter 5 American, American Mestizo, or Filipino?: Enrique Hagedorn, A. M. Snook, and American Mestizo Identities in the Philippine Commonwealth 109

Chapter 6 Race and Resistance: Luis Morgan, William Tate, and American Mestizo Identities during World War II 123

Chapter 7 The American Mestizo in the Republic of the Philippines 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826221223

082622122X

OCLC:

969886057

Publisher Number:

99971760311