American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America by Allan Punzalan Isaac BOOK TALK #2

American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America by Allan Punzalan Isaac BOOK TALK #2In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing to be everywhere and nowhere, Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the United States, symptomatic of American imperialisms invisibility to itself. In American Tropics, Isaac explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other unincorporated parts of the U. S. nation that obscure the contradictions of a

Sean is Filipino and Irish

1970–2000 “Birthmark is one of those rare first books that will make its mark on a generation

Publisher: University of the Philippines Press

as the sports writing poet Recah Trinidad says

What is fact

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Tracing the American empire from the beginning of the twentieth century to Philippine liberation and the U

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ISBN-13: 978-07-3-857134-8

Krasno makes clear that the heart of Filipino culture is in the divergent backgrounds of those who came to the islands--from China

As suggested in the subtitle