Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Filipinx American Critique: An Introduction 1
4. Section A: Reckoning
5. Part one. Empire as Endless War
6. One. Empire: Turns and Returns 29
7. Two. Empire as the Rule of War and Fascism 42
8. Three. Empire: US States at the Intersection of Diaspora and Indigeneity 57
9. Four. The Persistence of War through Migration 67
10. Five. Liminal Services: Third Spaces of Being within the United States 83
11. Six “Genocide” and the Poetics of Alter-Being in the Obsolescence of the “Filipino American” 91
12. Part two. Labor and Knowledge/Power
13. Seven. Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire 101
14. Eight. On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual 111
15. Nine. The Limits of “Immigration” Frameworks: Centering Empire in Analyzing Migration and the Diaspora 118
16. Ten. Including the Excluded: The “Chinese” in the Philippines and the Study of “Migration” in Filipinx American Studies 128
17. Eleven. Labor and Carework 138
18. Twelve. The Labor of History in Filipinx Historiography 148
19. Section B: Reclamation
20. Part three. Across Language, Sex-Gender, and Space-Time Geographies
21. Thirteen. Pag-uugat at Paglalayag (Roots and Journeys): Filipino Language Learning and Activism 161
22. Fourteen. In an Archipelago and Sea of Complexities: Contemporary Intersectional / Transpacific / Decolonial Queer and/or Trans Filipinx American Studies 174
23. Fifteen. Datíng as Affect in Filipinx Migration 185
24. Sxteen. Gender: A Transpacific Feminist Approach to Filipinx Studies 192
25. Seventeen. The Contingencies of Kasarian 201
26. Part four. Critical Schooling and Justice in Other Words
27. Eighteen. Filipinx Americans and Higher Education 209
28. Nineteen. Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models 221
29. Twenty. Third World Studies and the Living Archive of US-Based Filipinx Activism 229
30. Twenty-one. Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies 239
31. Twenty-two. Filipinx American Activism—and Why I Once Loved Manny Pacquiao 256
32. Twenty-three. Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific 267
33. Section C. Transformation
34. Part five. Relationalities, Intimacies, and Entanglements
35. Twenty-four. Filipinxness: An Epochal Perspective 275
36. Twenty-five. A Tale of Two “X”s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies 284
37. Twenty-six. Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians 291
38. Twenty-seven. Why I Don’t (Really) Consider Myself a Filipinx: Complicating “Filipinxness” from a Katutubo Intervention 298
39. Twenty-eight. Repertoires on Other Stages 308
40. Part six. Recalcitrant Bodies, Unruly Vernaculars
41. Twenty-nine. Confronting Worldly Acts: Filipinx Performances and Their Elsewheres 321
42. Thirty. Aye Nako! The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility 335
43. Thirty-one. Who Cares? Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies 343
44. Thirty-two. Dalaga na! Gender and Youth Studies Come of Age in Filipinx Studies 352
45. Thirty-three. Unpacking Hiya: (Trans)national “Traits” and the (Un)making of Filipinxness 362
46. Thirty-four. Language Run Amok 370
47. Afterword 379
48. Appendixes: Key Resources in Filipinx American Studies
49. Appendix A: A Selection of Library Research Tools and Web Resources Related to Filipinx American Studies 383
50. Appendix B. Selected List of Scholarship on Filipinx American Studies 403
51. Acknowledgments 415
52. Contributors 419
53. Index 435