Crip colony : mestizaje, US imperialism, and the queer politics of disability in the Philippines / Sony Coráñez Bolton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coráñez Bolton, Sony, 1985- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Philippines.

Multiracial people.

Sociology of disability--Political aspects.

Sociology of disability.

People with disabilities in mass media.

Queer theory.

Imperialism.

Philippines--Colonization.

Philippines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 204 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Crip Colony is an interdisciplinary analysis of the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Sony Coráñez Bolton reads across language archives and overlapping Spanish and US imperialisms, drawing on colonial records, visual culture, poetry, presidential speeches, travel narratives, and political essays, in addition to the famous Spanish-language Filipino novel Noli Me Tangere. Through these texts he shows how these imperial and racial regimes were also regimes of ability. Expanding traditional engagements with mestizaje, Coráñez Bolton examines the ways that Filipinx mestizaje became a eugenic framework which identified native Filipino subjects as inherently disabled, in need of reform and rehabilitation, and mixed-race Filipinos as able to offer a form of "benevolent rehabilitation" which would prepare these deficient natives for assimilation into the US empire. Through this crip critique of coloniality, Coráñez Bolton shows how mestizaje allowed for "superior" mixed-race subjects to govern the archipelago in collusion with imperial processes of dispossession and debilitation."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Crip colonial critique : reading mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines

Benevolent rehabilitation and the colonial bodymind : Filipinx American studies as disability studies

Mad María Clara : the queer aesthetics of mestizaje and compulsory able-mindedness

Filipino itineraries, orientalizing impairments : Chinese foot-binding and the crip coloniality of travel literature

A colonial model of disability : running amok in the mad colonial archive of the Philippines

A song from Subic : racial disposability and the intimacy of cultural translation.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Coráñez Bolton, Sony, 1985- Crip colony.

ISBN:

9781478024187

1478024186

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.