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" Race As Praxis in the Philippines At the Turn of the Twentieth Century "
BLANCO, John
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919140
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Race As Praxis in the Philippines At the Turn of the Twentieth Century [Article]\ BLANCO, John
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2020
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UC San Diego
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This article takes as its point of departure the disparity between the empirical poverty of raceand its survival, even growth, as a way of understanding history and politics or morespecifically, history as politics and politics as history in the Philippines during the nineteenthcentury. What interested me primarily was how race as a form of praxis is too often and easilyascribed to a discredited science that came into vogue during the nineteenth century. While racerhetoric certainly drew its authority from scientific positivism, its spokespeople also invoked thefields of law, philosophy, and religion. Yet for most people, race was not a question to be resolvedby scientific investigation, but a weapon in a war or conflict between unequal opponents. Notsurprisingly, questions around the existence or impossibility of a Filipino race were most fullydebated and developed in a time of war the 1896 Philippine Revolution, and the 1899Philippine-American War, which began just after the outbreak of war between the U. S. and Spainin 1898. My article charts the genealogy of these debates, and the relationship of race to thenarration of anti-imperial movements and alternative cosmopolitanism.
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