Metroimperial Intimacies

by: Mendoza, Victor Román, 1976- author

Publication date: 2015

Topics: Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century, Colonial administrators -- Philippines -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century, Colonial administrators -- Attitudes, Diplomatic relations, Imperialism -- Social aspects, United States territories and possessions, United States -- Territories and possessions -- History -- 20th century, United States -- Foreign relations -- Philippines, Philippines -- Foreign relations -- United States, Philippines, United States

Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press

Collection: dukeupress_pending; dukeuniversitydukepress; duldiversity; duke_libraries; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Duke University Libraries

Contributor: Duke University Press

Language: English

xiv, 286 pages : 24 cm

Racial-sexual governance and the US colonial state in the Philippines -- Unmentionable liberties : a racial-sexual differend in the US colonial Philippines -- Menacing receptivity : Philippine insurrectos and the sublime object of metroimperial visual culture -- The Sultan of Sulu's epidemic of intimacies -- Certain peculiar temptations : little brown students and racial-sexual governance in the metropole

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index