Filipinx American Studies

Rick Bonus (Edited By) Rick Bonus is Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author, most recently, of The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University. Antonio Tiongson (Edited By) Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. He is the author of Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation.

Filipinx American Critique: An Introduction | 1

Rick Bonus and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.

Section A: Reckoning

Part I: Empire as Endless War

1. Empire: Turns and Returns | 33

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

2. Empire as the Rule of War and Fascism | 42

Nerissa S. Balce

3. Empire: US States at the Intersection of Diaspora and Indigeneity | 57

Dean Itsuji Saranillio

4. The Persistence of War through Migration | 67

Cynthia Marasigan

5. Liminal Services: Third Spaces of Being within the United States | 83

JoAnna Poblete

6. “Genocide” and the Poetics of Alter-Being in the Obsolescence of the “Filipino American” | 91

Dylan Rodríguez

Part II: Labor and Knowledge/Power

7. Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire | 103

Josen Masangkay Diaz

8. On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual | 111

Victor Bascara

9. The Limits of “Immigration” Frameworks:

Centering Empire in Analyzing Migration and the Diaspora | 118

Roy B. Taggueg Jr. and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

10. Including the Excluded:

The “Chinese” in the Philippines and the Study of “Migration” in Filipinx American Studies | 128

Richard T. Chu

11. Labor and Carework | 138

Anna Romina Guevarra

12. The Labor of History in Filipinx Historiography | 148

Jody Blanco

Section B: Reclamation

Part III: Across Language, Sex-Gender, and Space-Time Geographies

13. Pag-uugat at Paglalayag (Roots and Journeys): Filipino Language Learning and Activism | 165

Joi Barrios

14. In an Archipelago and Sea of Complexities: Contemporary Intersectional / Transpacific / Decolonial Queer and/or Trans Filipinx American Studies | 174

Kale Bantigue Fajardo

15. Datíng as Affect in Filipinx Migration | 185

Allan Punzalan Isaac

16. Gender: A Transpacific Feminist Approach to Filipinx Studies | 192

Denise Cruz

17. The Contingencies of Kasarian | 201

Robert Diaz

Part IV: Critical Schooling and Justice in Other Words

18. Filipinx Americans and Higher Education | 211

Dina C. Maramba

19. Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models | 221

Reuben B. Deleon

20. Third World Studies and the Living Archive of US-based Filipinx Activism | 229

Michael Schulze-Oechtering

21. Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies | 239

Jeffrey Santa Ana

22. Filipinx American Activism—and Why I Once Loved Manny Pacquiao | 256

Karín Aguilar-San Juan

23. Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific | 267

Kim Compoc

Section C: Transformation

Part V: Relationalities, Intimacies, and Entanglements

24. Filipinxness: An Epochal Perspective | 279

Anthony Bayani Rodriguez

25. A Tale of Two “X”s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies | 284

Sony Coráñez Bolton

26. Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians | 291

Angelica J. Allen

27. Why I Don’t (Really) Consider Myself a Filipinx:

Complicating “Filipinxness” from a Katutubo Intervention | 298

J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez

28. Repertoires on Other Stages | 308

Theodore S. Gonzalves

Part VI: Recalcitrant Bodies, Unruly Vernaculars

29. Confronting Worldly Acts: Filipinx Performances and Their Elsewheres | 323

Lucy MSP Burns

30. Aye Nako!: The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility | 335

Alana J. Bock

31. Who Cares?: Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies | 343

Edward Nadurata

32. Dalaga na!: Gender and Youth Studies Come of Age in Filipinx Studies | 352

Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez

33. Unpacking Hiya: (Trans)national “Traits” and the (Un)making of Filipinxness | 362

Martin F. Manalansan IV

34. Language Run Amok | 370

Sarita Echavez See

Afterword | 379

Gina Apostol

Appendixes: Key Resources in Filipinx American Studies

A. A Selection of Library Research Tools and Web Resources Related to Filipinx American Studies | 385

Gerardo A. Colmenar

B. Selected List of Scholarship on Filipinx American Studies | 403

Edward Nadurata

Acknowledgments | 415

List of Contributors | 419

Index | 435