Enduring Empire : U. S. Statecraft and Race-Making in the Philippines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

quisumbing king, katrina.

Series:

Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

Racism.

Philippines--History--1898-1946.

Philippines.

Philippines--Colonial influence.

Philippines--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Philippines.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later, in 1946, Philippine independence was recognized by the United States, even as it continued to exert influence over the domestic and foreign affairs of the newly decolonized Republic. Despite some differences, U.S. control remained racial and imperial. Enduring Empire shows how U.S. federal state actors translated their ideas of race into state structures. Through innovating constitutional law, bureaucratic administration, and legislation, state actors built a durable and flexible system of racial-imperial rule that not only lasted beyond the period of formal empire but continues to this day. katrina quisumbing king traces debates among U.S. presidents, federal legislators, administrators, and justices about what kind of state the United States should be, the place of nonwhite people in the polity, and the best way to maintain U.S. white hegemony. In charting how state actors' positions--some nativist, isolationist, and protectionist and others expansionist, interventionist, and imperialist--evolved, quisumbing king identifies key moments when they cemented racial ideas into law and reshaped the terms of U.S. racial-imperial formation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making War, Making Race

One: Transformations in Racial-Imperial Rule

Part I: Institutionalizing Ambiguity, 1898-1916

Two: A Flexible Legal Architecture, 1898-1904

Three: A Durable Administrative Structure, 1898-1916

Part II: Bifurcating Rule, 1916-1941

Four: Hiding Empire at Home, 1928-1940

Five: Hiding Race Abroad, 1934-1941

Part III: Disguising Empire, 1943-1947

Six: Nativism as Liberal Inclusion, 1945-1946

Seven: Empire as Aid, 1945-1947

Conclusion: The Empire's New Clothes

Notes

Index

Series Page

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5036-4326-3

OCLC:

1521492856