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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780973703321

Autore

Rodriguez Dylan

Titolo

Suspended Apocalypse [[electronic resource] ] : White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition / / Dylan Rodriguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8166-7073-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

973.049921

Soggetti

Filipinos - Social conditions

Racism - United States

Genocide - Philippines

Philippines Relations United States

United States Relations Philippines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Filipino American communion: cultural alienation and the conditions of community -- Deformed nationalism and arrested raciality: the grammar and problematic of a Filipino American common sense -- Its very familiarity disguises its horror: white supremacy, genocide, and the statecraft of Pacifica Americana -- Suspended apocalypse: toward a fanonian analytic of the Filipino condition -- Death was swiftly running after us: disaster, evil, and radical possibility.

Sommario/riassunto

Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan Rodríguez provides a sophisticated analysis of the Filipino presence in the American imaginary. Radically critiquing current conceptions of Filipino American identity, community, and history, he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, rooted in the early twentieth-century military, political, and cultural subjugation of the Philippines by the United States.Suspended Apocalypse critically addresses wh