Suspended apocalypse : white supremacy, genocide, and the Filipino condition / Dylan Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez, Dylan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Philippines.

Genocide.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Filipinos--Social conditions.

Filipinos.

United States--Relations--Philippines.

United States.

Philippines--Relations--United States.

Philippines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan Rodríguez provides a sophisticated analysis of the Filipino presence in the American imaginary. Radically critiquing current conceptions of Filipino American identity, community, and history, he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, rooted in the early twentieth-century military, political, and cultural subjugation of the Philippines by the United States.Suspended Apocalypse critically addresses wh

Contents:

Filipino American communion: cultural alienation and the conditions of community

Deformed nationalism and arrested raciality: the grammar and problematic of a Filipino American common sense

Its very familiarity disguises its horror: white supremacy, genocide, and the statecraft of Pacifica Americana

Suspended apocalypse: toward a fanonian analytic of the Filipino condition

Death was swiftly running after us: disaster, evil, and radical possibility.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780816670734

0816670730

OCLC:

593295907

Publisher Number:

heb40447 hdl