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The Heartland of U.S. Empire : Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarmiento, Thomas Xavier.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Filipino American sexual minorities--Middle West--Social conditions.
- Filipino American sexual minorities.
- Filipino Americans--Middle West--Ethnic identity.
- Filipino Americans.
- Filipino Americans--Cultural assimilation--Middle West.
- Sexual minorities--Middle West--Social conditions.
- Sexual minorities.
- Filipinos--Middle West--Social conditions.
- Filipinos.
- Filipino diaspora.
- Imperialism--Social aspects--Middle West.
- Imperialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia Temple University Press 2026
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Imagining a Queer Filipinx Midwest
- Part I: The Philippines Queering the Midwest
- 1. Elegies for St. Louis: The Midwest as Filipinx America's Primal Scene
- 2. Tracing the Queer Filipinx Midwest: The Heartland's Archives of U.S. Empire in the Philippines
- Interlude
- 3. Sensing the Queer Filipinx Midwest: Geographic Nostalgia and Melancholia in Bienvenido Santos's Exile Literature
- Part II: The Midwest Queering Filipinx Diaspora
- 4. Filipinas in the Wild West
- 5. "See[ing] the World Not as It Is, but as It Should Be": Queer Filipinx Midwesterners and Postracial-Postimperial Televisuality
- Conclusion: "Looking Back at Looking Forward": Toward a Queer Cartography of the U.S. Filipinx Diaspora
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 9781439927687
- 1439927685
- Publisher Number:
- 40033217417
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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