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This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajectories of global capitalism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity. It encompasses an interrogation of the foundational status of empire in the interdiscipline; modes of labor analysis and other forms of knowledge production; meaning-making in relation to language, identities, time, and space; the critical contours of Filipinx American schooling and political activism; the indispensability of relational thinking in Filipinx American studies; and the disruptive possibilities of Filipinx American formations. A catalogue of key resources and a selected list of scholarship are also provided. Filipinx American Studies constitutes a coming-to-terms with not only the potentials and possibilities but also the disavowals, silences, and omissions that mark Filipinx American studies. It provides a reflective and critical space for thinking through the ways Filipinx American studies is uniquely and especially suited to the interrogation of the ongoing legacies of U.S. imperialism and the urgencies of the current period. Contributors: Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Angelica J. Allen, Gina Apostol, Nerissa S. Balce, Joi Barrios-Leblanc, Victor Bascara, Jody Blanco, Alana Bock, Sony Coranez Bolton, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Richard T. Chu, Gary A. Colemnar, Kim Compoc, Denise Cruz, Reuben B. Deleon, Josen Masangkay Diaz, Robert Diaz, Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, Anna Romina Guevara, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Dina C. Maramba, Cynthia Marasigan, Edward Nadurata, JoAnna Poblete, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez, Dylan Rodriguez, Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Michael Schulze-Oechtering, Sarita Echavez See, Roy B. Taggueg Jr.

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Author:   Rick Bonus ,  Antonio Tiongson ,  Karin Aguilar-San Juan ,  Angelica Allen
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823299584

ISBN 10:   0823299589
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   07 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Filipinx American Critique: An Introduction | 1 Rick Bonus and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. Section A: Reckoning Part I: Empire as Endless War 1. Empire: Turns and Returns | 33 Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 2. Empire as the Rule of War and Fascism | 42 Nerissa S. Balce 3. Empire: US States at the Intersection of Diaspora and Indigeneity | 57 Dean Itsuji Saranillio 4. The Persistence of War through Migration | 67 Cynthia Marasigan 5. Liminal Services: Third Spaces of Being within the United States | 83 JoAnna Poblete 6. “Genocide” and the Poetics of Alter-Being in the Obsolescence of the “Filipino American” | 91 Dylan Rodríguez Part II: Labor and Knowledge/Power 7. Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire | 103 Josen Masangkay Diaz 8. On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual | 111 Victor Bascara 9. The Limits of “Immigration” Frameworks: Centering Empire in Analyzing Migration and the Diaspora | 118 Roy B. Taggueg Jr. and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez 10. Including the Excluded: The “Chinese” in the Philippines and the Study of “Migration” in Filipinx American Studies | 128 Richard T. Chu 11. Labor and Carework | 138 Anna Romina Guevarra 12. The Labor of History in Filipinx Historiography | 148 Jody Blanco Section B: Reclamation Part III: Across Language, Sex-Gender, and Space-Time Geographies 13. Pag-uugat at Paglalayag (Roots and Journeys): Filipino Language Learning and Activism | 165 Joi Barrios 14. In an Archipelago and Sea of Complexities: Contemporary Intersectional / Transpacific / Decolonial Queer and/or Trans Filipinx American Studies | 174 Kale Bantigue Fajardo 15. Datíng as Affect in Filipinx Migration | 185 Allan Punzalan Isaac 16. Gender: A Transpacific Feminist Approach to Filipinx Studies | 192 Denise Cruz 17. The Contingencies of Kasarian | 201 Robert Diaz Part IV: Critical Schooling and Justice in Other Words 18. Filipinx Americans and Higher Education | 211 Dina C. Maramba 19. Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models | 221 Reuben B. Deleon 20. Third World Studies and the Living Archive of US-based Filipinx Activism | 229 Michael Schulze-Oechtering 21. Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies | 239 Jeffrey Santa Ana 22. Filipinx American Activism—and Why I Once Loved Manny Pacquiao | 256 Karín Aguilar-San Juan 23. Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific | 267 Kim Compoc Section C: Transformation Part V: Relationalities, Intimacies, and Entanglements 24. Filipinxness: An Epochal Perspective | 279 Anthony Bayani Rodriguez 25. A Tale of Two “X”s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies | 284 Sony Coráñez Bolton 26. Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians | 291 Angelica J. Allen 27. Why I Don’t (Really) Consider Myself a Filipinx: Complicating “Filipinxness” from a Katutubo Intervention | 298 J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez 28. Repertoires on Other Stages | 308 Theodore S. Gonzalves Part VI: Recalcitrant Bodies, Unruly Vernaculars 29. Confronting Worldly Acts: Filipinx Performances and Their Elsewheres | 323 Lucy MSP Burns 30. Aye Nako!: The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility | 335 Alana J. Bock 31. Who Cares?: Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies | 343 Edward Nadurata 32. Dalaga na!: Gender and Youth Studies Come of Age in Filipinx Studies | 352 Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez 33. Unpacking Hiya: (Trans)national “Traits” and the (Un)making of Filipinxness | 362 Martin F. Manalansan IV 34. Language Run Amok | 370 Sarita Echavez See Afterword | 379 Gina Apostol Appendixes: Key Resources in Filipinx American Studies A. A Selection of Library Research Tools and Web Resources Related to Filipinx American Studies | 385 Gerardo A. Colmenar B. Selected List of Scholarship on Filipinx American Studies | 403 Edward Nadurata Acknowledgments | 415 List of Contributors | 419 Index | 435

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In this book, all parts speak to the others: Labor is inextricable from history and migration is moored to identity and performance is linked to gender and language is inseparable from empire and affect is related to labor and on down the chain. Repetitions boomerang and wake us. Connections rule. In the gaps lie some salvations.---Gina Apostol, from the Afterword,

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Rick Bonus (Edited By) Rick Bonus is Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author, most recently, of The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University. Antonio Tiongson (Edited By) Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. He is the author of Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation.

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