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1019200
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b773570
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Isaac, Allan Punzalan
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| Title & Author
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American tropics : : articulating Filipino America /\ Allan Punzalan Isaac.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2006.
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| Series Statement
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Critical American studies series
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1 online resource (xxx, 205 pages).
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| ISBN
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0816695555
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: 9780816695553
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0816642737
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0816642745
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9780816642731
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9780816642748
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index.
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| Contents
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American tropics -- Disappearing clauses : reconstituting America in the unincorporated territories -- Moral sentences : Boy Scouts and novel encounters with empire -- Imperial romance : framing manifest destiny in the Pacific -- Reconstituting American subjects : proximate masculinities -- Reconstituting American predicates : troping the American tour d'horizon.
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| Abstract
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In American Tropics, Allan Punzalan Isaac explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other "unincorporated" parts of the US nation that obscure the contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies. Isaac examines the American empires images of the Philippines in Hollywood films such as Blue Hawaii and novels such as Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters.
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American literature-- Filipino American authors-- History and criticism.
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Filipino Americans-- Race identity.
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Filipino Americans-- Study and teaching.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism-- History.
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Postcolonialism.
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Racism in popular culture-- United States.
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American literature-- Filipino American authors
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HISTORY-- United States-- 20th Century.
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Imperialism in literature
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Imperialism
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International relations
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Postcolonialism
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Race relations
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Racism in popular culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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Philippines, Relations, United States.
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United States, Race relations.
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United States, Relations, Philippines.
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Philippines
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United States
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| Dewey Classification
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305.89/921073
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| LC Classification
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E184.F4I73 2006eb
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