LEADER 04466nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910305559203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-36085-2 010 $a9786610360857 010 $a0-8135-3744-4 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813537443 035 $a(CKB)1000000000031422 035 $a(EBL)979579 035 $a(OCoLC)804665118 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000115672 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145059 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115672 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10009621 035 $a(PQKB)11056438 035 $a(DE-B1597)526088 035 $a(OCoLC)1109334864 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813537443 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC979579 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000031422 100 $a20040519d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuilding diaspora $eFilipino community formation on the Internet /$fEmily Noelle Ignacio 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-3513-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface: Why Filipinos? --$t1. Introduction: Filipino Community Formation on the Internet --$t2. Problematizing Diaspora: If Nation, Culture, and Homeland Are Constructed, Why Bother with Diasporic Identity? --$t3. Selling Out One's Culture: The Imagined Homeland and Authenticity --$t4. "Ain't I a Filipino (Woman)?": Filipina as Gender Marker --$t5. Laughter in the Rain: Jokes as Membership and Resistance --$t6. E Pluribus or E Pluribus Unum?: Can There Be Unity in Diversity? --$tAPPENDIX A: STUDYING THE DEFINITION OF "FILIPINO" --$tAPPENDIX B: YOU MAY BE MARRIED TO A FILIPINA IF --$tAPPENDIX C: ARE YOU REALLY FILIPINO? --$tNOTES --$tREFERENCES --$tINDEX --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThe dramatic growth of the Internet in recent years has provided opportunities for a host of relationships and communities-forged across great distances and even time-that would have seemed unimaginable only a short while ago. In Building Diaspora, Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used these subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others. Through an extensive analysis of newsgroup debates, listserves, and website postings, she illustrates the significant ways that computer-mediated communication has contributed to solidifying what can credibly be called a Filipino diaspora. Lively cyber-discussions on topics including Eurocentrism, Orientalism, patriarchy, gender issues, language, and "mail-order-brides" have helped Filipinos better understand and articulate their postcolonial situation as well as their relationship with other national and ethnic communities around the world. Significant attention is given to the complicated history of Philippine-American relations, including the ways Filipinos are racialized as a result of their political and economic subjugation to U.S. interests. As Filipinos and many other ethnic groups continue to migrate globally, Building Diaspora makes an important contribution to our changing understanding of "homeland." The author makes the powerful argument that while home is being further removed from geographic place, it is being increasingly territorialized in space. 606 $aFilipino Americans$xSocial conditions 606 $aFilipino Americans$xEthnic identity 606 $aFilipino Americans$xRace identity 606 $aInternet$xSocial aspects 606 $aCommunity life$zUnited States 606 $aTransnationalism 607 $aPhilippines$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zPhilippines 615 0$aFilipino Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aFilipino Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aFilipino Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aInternet$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCommunity life 615 0$aTransnationalism. 676 $a305.89/921073/090511 700 $aIgnacio$b Emily$f1970-$01754570 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910305559203321 996 $aBuilding diaspora$94191004 997 $aUNINA