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From "Little Brown Brothers" to "Forgotten Asian Americans": Race, Space, and Empire in Filipino Los Angeles.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From "Little Brown Brothers" to "Forgotten Asian Americans": Race, Space, and Empire in Filipino Los Angeles./
Author:	Bernardo, Joseph A.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2014,
Description:	350 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-08A(E).
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3618179
ISBN:	9781303862953

From "Little Brown Brothers" to "Forgotten Asian Americans": Race, Space, and Empire in Filipino Los Angeles.
Bernardo, Joseph A.

From "Little Brown Brothers" to "Forgotten Asian Americans": Race, Space, and Empire in Filipino Los Angeles. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2014 - 350 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Through archival research, close readings of literary works, and oral histories, this dissertation traces the various formations of Filipino American urban space in Los Angeles from the 1920s to the 1980s under the backdrop of the rise of U.S. empire. This dissertation argues that the emergence, disappearance, and later reclamation of "Little Manila"/"Historic Filipinotown" throughout the twentieth century marked critical shifts in articulations of American imperialism. As the United States had a formal colonial presence in the Philippines and Filipinos subsequently migrated to the United States as colonial subjects, whites in Los Angeles segregated, contained, and marginalized their "Little Brown Brothers" in a Little Manila district downtown, deeming Filipinos as "unassimilable" and a "racial problem." However, as the U.S. state expanded domestically and globally in unprecedented ways during the World War II and postwar periods, Los Angeles city officials destroyed the Little Manila neighborhood while Filipinos increasingly moved to suburban neighborhoods as whites shifted their view of Filipinos in the United States as "loyal" Americans worthy of citizenship. By the 1960s and 1970s, as U.S. imperialism placed greater political emphasis on globalization and multiculturalism, the lack of a distinct Filipino enclave in Los Angeles, in turn, racialized Filipinos as "invisible." Efforts to become "visible" and address pressing needs of Filipinos in the United States through campaigns to gain state recognition proved elusive, deeming Filipinos as socially and politically inept by nature to address their own marginality in the United States. Such calls of "invisibility," therefore, were more products of liberal multiculturalism and its contradictions than on supposed cultural traits.

ISBN: 9781303862953Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

From "Little Brown Brothers" to "Forgotten Asian Americans": Race, Space, and Empire in Filipino Los Angeles.
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