Metroimperial intimacies: fantasy, racial-sexual governance, and the Philippines in U.S. imperialism, 1899-1913

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In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies--whether expressed through friendship, love, or eroticism--threatened U.S. gender and sexuality norms. To codify U.S. heteronormative behavior the colonial government …

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Full title :Metroimperial intimacies : fantasy, racial-sexual governance, and the Philippines in U.S. imperialism, 1899-1913 / Victor Román Mendoza.

Summary

In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies--whether expressed through friendship, love, or eroticism--threatened U.S. gender and sexuality norms. To codify U.S. heteronormative behavior the colonial government prohibited anything loosely defined as perverse, which along with popular representations of Filipinos, regulated colonial subjects and depicted them as sexually available, diseased, and degenerate. Mendoza analyzes laws, military records, the writing of Philippine students in the United States, and popular representations of Philippine colonial subjects to show how their lives, bodies, and desires became the very battleground for the consolidation of repressive legal, economic, and political institutions and practices of the U.S. colonial state. By highlighting the importance of racial and gendered violence in maintaining control at home and abroad, Mendoza demonstrates that studies of U.S. sexuality must take into account the reach and impact of U.S. imperialism.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822374862, 0822374862, 9781478091271, 1478091274
oclc:ocn925037148
LC Classification:E183.8.P6
Dewey Decimal:327.7305990904

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.

Subjects

Administrateurs coloniaux -- Attitudes … Colonial administrators -- Attitudes Colonial administrators -- Attitudes --… Diplomatic relations États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- … États-Unis -- Territoires et possession… History Imperialism -- Social aspects Imperialism -- Social aspects -- 20th c… Impérialisme -- Aspect social -- 20e si… Philippines Philippines -- Foreign relations -- Uni… Philippines -- Relations extérieures --… POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Rela… United States United States -- Foreign relations -- P… United States -- Territories and posses…