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Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the Lazy Native and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines

Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the Lazy Native and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines

Radics, George Baylon

Hardcover

Series: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0820375446
ISBN13: 9780820375441
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Apr 15 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image--one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of race and modernity left a profound imprint on the nation. More recently, we have seen a menacing rise of Islamic terrorism, political polarization, populism, xenophobia, and isolationism. Conventional wisdom has attributed this rise to a failed state or economic insecurity and cultural backlash. In this book, however, George Radics explains this forgotten part of U.S. history with emotions as a driving force behind social action. The Philippines is currently experiencing the longest-running Muslim-Christian conflict in the modern world and an increasingly anti-Western populist government. By unpacking the role of emotions from the American colonial period to the present, Emotional Filipinos blurs the line between American colonizer and Muslim-Filipino terrorist, highlighting the lasting effects of America's footprint in Southeast Asia. Radics humanizes this fraught history and reveals unexplored connections between past and present.

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