Bastards of U.S. Imperialism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Caronan
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Filipino American ◽  
Paternal Relationship

This chapter explores the possibilities and limitations for Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican cultural critique by focusing on two documentary films: Camilla Benilao Griggers's Memories of a Forgotten War (2001) and Rosie Perez's Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo Sepas! (I'm Puerto Rican, Just So You Know!) (2006). It considers how these two films resurrect a metaphor used to justify U.S. colonialism in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, one that imagined colonialism as paternal relationship, to discuss the notion of colonial illegitimacy. It shows how the films connect their narrators' familial illegitimacy to the metaphorical illegitimacy that manifests as illegitimate narratives that are disavowed by hegemonic narratives of U.S. benevolent assimilation and exceptionalism. The chapter argues that the films resurrect the metaphors of imperialism as heterosexual romance and paternal benevolence to question the narrative of U.S. colonial benevolence.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Caronan
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Filipino American ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The U.S

This book explores how Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican cultural critiques are delegitimized and obscured by U.S. imperialism and global power. Drawing on Raymond Williams's dual definitions of culture as both the experience of everyday life within a society and the cultural productions that circulate within society, the book analyzes the ways that Filipinos and Puerto Ricans have been represented to affirm narratives of U.S. exceptionalism in the early twentieth century and today. It considers how recent Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican cultural productions across multiple genres critique these justifications, and how the U.S. cultural market contains these critiques to reaffirm revised narratives of U.S. exceptionalism. This introduction provides an overview of the institutionalized narrative of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, the politics and economics of Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican cultural representation, and hegemonic narratives of racial stereotypes in the United States.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Caronan
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Filipino Americans ◽  
Filipino American ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Performance Poetry ◽  
Puerto Rican Culture ◽  
Selective Traditions ◽  
And Performance

This book has investigated how Filipino American culture and U.S. Puerto Rican culture across various genres critique narratives of U.S. exceptionalism that justify U.S. colonial projects. It has shown that hegemonic narratives of U.S. multiculturalism, U.S. exceptionalism, and the good immigrant all function to define and discipline Filipino Americans and U.S. Puerto Ricans. It has described these Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican cultural productions as all selective traditions that have been carefully deployed to affirm hegemonic U.S. narratives that imagine the end of empire as the reproduction of U.S. liberal, democratic, and capitalist values around the world. It has argued that Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican cultural critiques such as novels, documentary films, and performance poetry challenge the eventual outcomes of benevolent assimilation, thus questioning the initial sincerity of the promises of U.S. imperialism as exceptional. They imagine a different end to empire, an end that entails the empowerment of those who have been exploited by imperialism and subsequently by globalization.

Introduction: Defining U.S. Colonial Experiences

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoAnna Poblete
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Multiple Groups ◽  
Sugar Plantations ◽  
And Function

This book examines the overarching process and function of U.S. imperialism and the general impact of ambiguous legal status on U.S. colonials by focusing on two different colonized groups in Hawaiʻi: Puerto Ricans and Filipinos. It compares the experiences of Puerto Rican and Filipino laborers using the concept of U.S. colonialism, which highlights the liminal and subordinate political-legal status of multiple groups who have come under direct U.S. authority. It also explores the in-between political-legal statuses of work migrants in relation to issues of citizenship, migration, and labor. The book shows that in this in-between status, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos engaged in migration patterns, as well as government and labor processes, that were fundamentally different from foreigners, citizens, and each other. This introduction provides an overview of the intra-colonial experiences of Filipino and Puerto Rican laborers in Hawaiʻi U.S. colonialism in Hawaiʻi, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico; and labor needs of sugar plantations in Hawaiʻi during the Civil War and the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875; and the book's chapters.

Morphological comparison of isolates of Phakopsora pachyrhizi from different areas of the world

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 1443-1449 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Bonde ◽  
M. F. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Phakopsora Pachyrhizi ◽  
Morphological Comparison ◽  
Eastern Hemisphere ◽  
The World ◽  
Scanning Electron

Isolates of Phakopsora pachyrhizi from Australia, Indian, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Puerto Rico were compared with respect to morphology and development of 'Wayne' soybean. The most extensive comparisons were made between the Puerto Rican and Taiwanese isolates; these were indistinguishable in their prepenetration, penetration, and early colonization phases. Examination of uredia of all isolates by light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed no differences in uredial morphology. All isolates were indistinguishable with respect to uredospore size, shape, and apparently the number and distribution of uredospore germ pores. The only difference observed was the appearance of germ pores; germ pores of the Puerto Rican isolate were easier to see by means of SEM than those of the four Eastern Hemisphere isolates, suggesting that the Puerto Rican isolate may have thinner germ pore plugs. This difference is not sufficient to consider the isolates as taxonomically distinct.

President Taft and the Puerto Rican Appropriation Crisis of 1909

1969 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Truman R. Clark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Secretary Of War

William Howard Taft was a central participant at the birth of American imperialism. He won praises for his work with the Philippine Islands, first as head of the commission created to restore the Islands to a peaceful state, then as the first civil governor. He gave up this office to become Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. In his position in the Cabinet Taft had direct or indirect oversight over most of America's scattered empire.By March, 1909, when Taft succeeded Roosevelt in the Presidency, the constitution of the American empire had largely been formulated, even if strictly speaking, it had not been formalized. Civil governments had been set up in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands. The “insular cases” of 1901 had defined the limits of claims of the dependent peoples upon the Constitution of the United States; the new possessions were neither foreign nor domestic, and thus even though the Constitution did not follow the flag, tariffs might. The only armed resistance to American control—in the Philippines—had long since ended. It was then to the surprise and dismay of President Taft that tiny Puerto Rico immediately presented a hostile challenge to his new administration, the constitutional rebellion known as the appropriation crisis of 1909.

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