White Love and Other Events in Filipino History » (1st Edition)

Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines and Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish Rule, both also published by Duke University Press.

Looks at nationalism as an unstable production, examining how, under what circumstances, and with what effects, the comcept of nation was produced and deployed in the Philippines.

1. White Love
   Census and Melodrama in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines
2. Colonial Domesticity
   Engendering Race at the Edge of Empire, 18991912
3. The Undead
   Notes on Photography in the Philippines, 18981920s
Anticipating Nationhood
Identification, Collaboration, and Rumor in Filipino Responses to Japan
4. Patronage, Pornography, and Youth
   Ideology and Spectatorship during the Early Marcos Years
5. Taglish, or the Phantom Power of the Lingua Franca
6. Writing History after EDSA
7. "Your Grief is Our Gossip"
   Overseas Filipinos and Other Spectral Presences
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index