Toward Filipino self-determination : beyond transnational globalization /
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| Author / Creator: | San Juan, E. (Epifanio), Jr., 1938- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in global modernity SUNY series in global modernity. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11197822 |
| Summary: | Granted formal independence in 1946, the Philippines serves as a battleground between the neoliberal project of capitalist globalization and the enduring aspiration of Filipinos for national self-determination. More than ten million Filipino workers--over one-tenth of the country's total population--work as contract workers in all parts of the world. How did this "model" colony of the United States devolve into an impoverished, war-torn neocolonial hinterland, a provider of cheap labor and raw materials for the rest of the world? In Toward Filipino Self-Determination, E. San Juan Jr. explores the historical, cultural, and political formation of the Filipino diaspora. By focusing on the work of significant Filipino intellectuals and activists, including Carlos Bulosan and Philip Vera Cruz, as well as the issues of gender and language for workers in the United States, San Juan provides a historical-materialist reading of social practices, discourses, and institutions that explain the contradictions characterizing Filipino life in both the United States and in the Philippines. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441620569 1441620567 1438427379 9781438427379 1438427239 9781438427232 |