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  • Beauty and Brutality

    Manila and Its Global Discontents

    Edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Robert Diaz, Roland B. Tolentino ...
    Beauty and Brutality provides an exciting, original, and critical encounter with this labyrinthine city’s imagined and material landscape. The authors and contributors investigate the “messy, fleshy, recalcitrant, mercurial, and immeasurable qualities of the city,” examining its urban space and smell: how it is represented in films, literature, music, and urban streetart; how it has endured the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Filipinx American Studies

    Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation

    by Rick Bonus, Antonio Tiongson Jr., Angelica Allen, Gina Apostol, Nerissa Balce, Victor Bascara, Jody Blanco, Alana Bock, Sony Coranez Bolton0, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns1, Richard Chu2, Gary Colmenar3, Kim Compoc4, Denise Cruz5, Reuben Deleon6, Josen Diaz7, Robert Diaz8, Vernadette Gonzales9, Theodore Gonzalves0, Anna Guevarra1, Allan Punzalan Isaac2, Martin Manalansan3, Dina Maramba4, Cynthia Marasigan5, Edward Nadurata6, JoAnna Poblete7, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez8, Dylan Rodríguez9, Evelyn Rodriguez0, J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez1, Michael Schulze-Oechtering2, Sarita Echavez-See3, Roy Taggueg4 ...
    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Filipinos in Canada

    Disturbing Invisibility

    by Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, John Paul Catungal, Roland Sintos Coloma, Lisa M. Davidson ...
    The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized nanny, the selfless nurse, and the gangster youth. On one hand, these narratives concentrate ... Read more

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  • Transpacific Femininities

    The Making of the Modern Filipina

    by Denise Cruz ...
    In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the "transpacific Filipina" to Philippine nationalism, women's suffrage, and constructions of modernity. Her analysis illuminates connections between the rise in the number of Philippine works produced in English and the emergence of new social classes of transpacific women during the early to mid ... Read more

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  • U.S. Central Americans

    Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance

    Edited by Karina Oliva Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, Ester E. Hernández ...
    In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States.While much has been written about U.S. and ... Read more

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  • Queer and Trans Migrations

    Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

    by Eithne Luibheid, Karma R. Chavez, Anna Carastathis, Jack Caraves, Ryan Conrad, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee0, Leece Lee-Oliver1, Hana Masri2, Yasmin Nair3, Bamby Salcedo4, Fadi Saleh5, Rafael Ramirez Solorzano6, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto7, Myrto Tsilimpounidi8, Suyapa Portillo Villeda9, Sasha Wijeyeratne0, Ruben Zecena1, AB Brown2, Elif Sari3, Julio Capo Jr.4 ...
    Series series Dissident Feminisms
    More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid's and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume ... Read more

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  • Remaindered Life

    by Neferti X. M. Tadiar ...
    In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth ... Read more

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  • Pangayaw and Decolonizing Resistance

    Anarchism in the Philippines

    by Bas Umali ...
    The legacy of anarchist ideas in the Philippines was first brought to the attention of a global audience by Benedict Anderson’s book Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination. Activist-author Bas Umali proves with stunning evidence that these ideas are still alive in a country that he would like to see replaced by an “archepelagic confederation.”Pangayaw and Decolonizing ... Read more

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  • Home Bound

    Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

    by Yen Le Espiritu ...
    Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of ... Read more

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  • Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Property Protection

    Cultural Signifiers in the Caribbean and the Americas

    by Sharon Le Gall ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
    International developments since the mid-1990s have signalled an awareness of the importance and validity of traditional knowledge and cultural property. The adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the establishment of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore demonstrate an emerging trend towards the ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Nation

    Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

    by Martin Joseph Ponce ...
    Series Book 46 - Sexual Cultures
    Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesBeyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and ... Read more

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