Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America
Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America
by Josen Masangkay Diaz
Duke University Press, 2023 Paper: 978-1-4780-1935-0 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-1669-4 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-2396-8 Library of Congress Classification E184.F4D539 2022
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity. Diaz explores how the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and US policies during the Cold War that supported the regime defined the relationship between “Filipino” and “America” in ways that influenced the creation of a gendered and racialized Filipino American subject. By analyzing Philippine-US state programs for military operations, labor and immigration reform, and development and modernization plans, she shows how anticommunist liberalism and authoritarianism shaped the visibility and recognition of new forms of Filipino subjectivity. Tracing the rise of various social formations that emerged under the Marcos regime and US programs for liberal reform, from transnational Filipino and US culture and the immigrant returnee to the New Filipina woman and the humanitarian English teacher, Diaz positions literature, film, periodicals, and other cultural texts against official state records in ways that reconceptualize the meanings of Filipino America in the Cold War.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Josen Masangkay Diaz is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Unmaking Configurations 1 1. The Fictions of National Culture 27 2. Balikbayan Movements 58 3. The New Filipina Melodrama 85 4. The Filipino Humanitarian 113 Conclusion: Reckoning with the Body 138 Notes 153 Bibliography 187 Index
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