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Building Diaspora: Filipino Community Formation on the Internet

Building Diaspora: Filipino Community Formation on the Internet

Ignacio, Emily Noelle

Paperback

AnthropologyAsian American Studies

ISBN10: 081353514X
ISBN13: 9780813535142
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Dec 14 2004
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
The dramatic growth of the Internet in recent years has provided opportunities for a host of relationships and communities--forged across great distances and even time--that would have seemed unimaginable only a short while ago.

In Building Diaspora, Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used these subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others. Through an extensive analysis of newsgroup debates, listserves, and website postings, she illustrates the significant ways that computer-mediated communication has contributed to solidifying what can credibly be called a Filipino diaspora. Lively cyber-discussions on topics including Eurocentrism, Orientalism, patriarchy, gender issues, language, and mail-order-brides have helped Filipinos better understand and articulate their postcolonial situation as well as their relationship with other national and ethnic communities around the world. Significant attention is given to the complicated history of Philippine-American relations, including the ways Filipinos are racialized as a result of their political and economic subjugation to U.S. interests.

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