The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
Title | The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2006 |
Authors | Kramer, Paul A. |
Number of Pages | 552 |
Publisher | University of North Carolina Press |
City | Chapel Hill, NC |
Abstract | In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration and anticolonial resistance Paul A. Kramer reveals how racial politics served U.S. empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race and nation in both the United States and the Philippines. Kramer argues that Philippine-American colonial history was characterized by struggles over sovereignty and recognition. In the wake of a racial-exterminist war, U.S. colonialists, in dialogue with Filipino elites, divided the Philippine population into "civilized" Christians and "savage" animists and Muslims. Ultimately, however, this racial vision of imperial nation-building collided with U.S. nativist efforts to insulate the United States from its colonies, even at the cost of Philippine independence. |
URL | https://uncpress.org/book/9780807856536/the-blood-of-government/ |
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