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When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino, a group of which little is known or written despite its long-standing history with the United States. This interdisciplinary analysis rectifies this dearth of information by addressing ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal and family relationships, mental health, race, and racism. In addition, the sociopolitical context is examined in each chapter, making the volume useful as a foundational tool for hypothesis generation, empirical research, policy analysis and planning, and literature review.
Colonialism's Legacy: The Inferiorizing of the Filipino
Colonialism's Legacy: The Inferiorizing of the Filipino
You must look and look until you are blind with looking, then out of this blindness will come illumination.
For generations, historians, educators, culture critics, and just about everyone else have consistently represented the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Philippines as benevolent in intent and beneficial in effect. Typical of this view is writer Nick Joaquin (1965), who rhapsodized about it as nothing less than “one of the great civilizing labors in the history of mankind” (p. 72). To Joaquin and many like him, the imposition of Christianity and the European culture that came with it were ...
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