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

• Autore: Rodriguez Dylan
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.049921
• Soggetto topico: Filipinos - Social conditions; Racism - United States; Genocide - Philippines
• Soggetto geografico: Philippines Relations United States; United States Relations Philippines
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Suspended Apocalypse
• ISBN: 0-8166-7073-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815204003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II