Essays challenging conventional narratives of Filipino American history and culture.
Introduction: Critical ConsiderationsAntonio T. Tiongson, Jr.Part I: Imperial Legacies and Filipino Subjectivities1. 1896-1996: Patterns of Reform, Repetition, and Return in the First Centennial of the Philippine RevolutionJody Blanco, University of California, San Diego2. On Filipinos, Filipino Americans, and United States Imperialism: Interview with Oscar V. Campomanes3. Filipino Bodies, Lynching, and the Language of EmpireNerissa S. Balce, University of Massachusetts-Amherst4. "Just Ten Years Removed from a Bolo and a Breech Cloth": The Sexualization of the Filipino "Menace"Ruby Tapia, Ohio State UniversityPart II: Public Policy, Law, and the Construction of Filipinos5. Losing Little Manila: Race and Redevelopment in Filipina/o Stockton, CaliforniaDawn Bohulano Mabalon, San Francisco State University6. Filipino Americans, Foreigner Discrimination, and the Lines of Racial SovereigntyAngelo Ancheta, Harvard UniversityPart III: Reconfiguring the Scope of Filipino Politics7. On the Politics of (Filipino) Youth Culture: Interview with Theodore S. Gonzalves8. Colonial Amnesia: Rethinking Filipino "American" Settler Empowerment in the U.S. Colony of HawaiiDean Itsuji Saranillio, University of MichiganPart IV: Resignifying "Filipino American"9. "A Million Deaths?": Genocide and the "Filipino American" Condition of PossibilityDylan Rodríguez, University of California, Riverside 10. Reflections on the Trajectory of Filipino American Studies: Interview with Rick Bonus11. Do YouMis(recognize) Me: Jocelyn Enriquez, Filipina/o Invisibility, and the Condition of Perpetual AbsenceElizabeth H. Pisares12. A Different Breed of Filipino Balikbayans: The Ambiguities of "Re-turning"S. Lily Mendoza, University of Denver