INDEX

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. The Field: Dialogues, Visions, Tensions, and Aspirations 1
5. PART I. Where from? Where to? Filipino Studies: Fields and Agendas
6. 1. Challenges for Cultural Studies under the Rule of Global War 15
7. 2. Toward a Critical Filipino Studies Approach to Philippine Migration 33
8. 3. Oriental Enlightenment and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? 56
9. PART II. Colonial Layerings, Imperial Crossings
10. 4. Collaboration, Co-prosperity, and “Complete Independence”: Across the Pacific (1942), across Philippine Palimpsests 87
11. 5. A Wondrous World of Small Places: Childhood Education, US Colonial Biopolitics, and the Global Filipino 106
12. 6. Ilustrado Transnationalism: Cross-Colonial Fields and Filipino Elites at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 128
13. 7. “Not Classifiable as Orientals or Caucasians or Negroes”: Filipino Racial Ontology and the Stalking Presence of the “Insane Filipino Soldier” 151
14. PART III. Nationalist Inscriptions: Blurrings and Erasures
15. 8. Transnationalizing the History of the Chinese in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period: The Case of the Chinese Exclusion Act 179
16. 9. Redressive Nationalisms, Queer Victimhood, and Japanese Duress 197
17. 10. Decolonizing Manila-Men and St. Maló, Louisiana: A Queer Postcolonial Asian American Critique 227
18. PART IV. The Filipino Body in Time and Space
19. 11. Pinoy Posteriority 251
20. 12. The Case of Felicidad Ocampo: A Palimpsest of Transpacific Feminism 274
21. 13. Hair Lines: Filipino American Art and the Uses of Abstraction 297
22. 14. Eartha Kitt’s “Waray Waray”: The Filipina in Black Feminist Performance Imaginary 313
23. PART V. Philippine Cultures at Large: Homing in on Global Filipinos and Their Discontents
24. 15. Diasporic and Liminal Subjectivities in the Age of Empire: “Beyond Biculturalism” in the Case of the Two Ongs 333
25. 16. The Legacy of Undesirability: Filipino TNTs, “Irregular Migrants,” and “Outlaws” in the US Cultural Imaginary 355
26. 17. “Home” and The Filipino Channel: Stabilizing Economic Security, Migration Patterns, and Diaspora through New Technologies 375
27. 18. “Come Back Home Soon”: The Pleasures and Agonies of “Homeland” Visits 388
28. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 411
29. INDEX 415