Title Dangerous Intercourse Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898-1946

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (313 p.) Series The United States in the World The United States in the World Contents Dangerous Intercourse -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dangerous Intercourse: Romantic Pretense and Colonial Violence -- 1. Marshaling Interracial Intercourse during the Philippine-American War, 1898-1902 -- 2. Colonial "Frontiers": Empire Building and Intercourse in the Northern and Southern Philippines -- 3. Colonial Sociality and Policing Dangerous Intercourse,1898-1907 -- 4. The Trials of Intercourse: Criminality and Illegitimacy in the Colonial Courts -- 5. Depicting Dangerous Intercourse: Sam and Maganda on the Pages of Empire 6. Making Mestizos: Filipino American Mixed-Race Children and Discourses of Belonging, 1898 and Beyond -- Conclusion: "My Filipino Baby," Absolution, and the Aftermath of an Imperial Romance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Summary In Dangerous Intercourse, Tessa Winkelmann examines interracial social and sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos in the early twentieth century via a wide range of relationships--from the casual and economic to the formal and long term. Winkelmann argues that such intercourse was foundational not only to the colonization of the Philippines, but to the longer, uneven history between the two nations. Though some relationships between Filipinos and Americans served as demonstrations of US "benevolence," too-close sexual relations also threatened social hierarchies and the so-called civilizing mission. For the Filipino, Indigenous, Moro, Chinese, and other local populations, intercourse offered opportunities to negotiate and challenge empire, though these opportunities often came at a high cost for those most vulnerable.Drawing on a multi-lingual array of primary sources, Dangerous Intercourse highlights that sexual relationships enabled US authorities to police white and non-white bodies alike, define racial and national boundaries, and solidify colonial rule throughout the archipelago. The dangerous ideas about sexuality and Filipina women created and shaped by US imperialists of the early twentieth century remain at the core of contemporary American notions of the island nation, and indeed, of Asian and Asian American women more generally Analysis American colonialism in the Philippines, US empire and intimacies, history of US foreign relations, interracial intimacies in the US Island empire, Filipina women and Interracial Marriage, gender and sexuality in the Asia-Pacific World Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Miscegenation -- Social aspects -- Philippines Miscegenation -- Political aspects -- Philippines Interracial couples -- Philippines Interracial marriage -- Philippines Racially mixed families -- Philippines Racially mixed children -- Philippines HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. Colonization -- Social aspects. Interracial couples. Interracial marriage. Miscegenation -- Social aspects. Racially mixed children. Racially mixed families. United States of America, USA. History of the Americas. Colonialism & imperialism. Society & culture: general. Gender studies: women & girls. Family and Relationships. SUBJECT Philippines -- Colonization -- Social aspects Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946 Subject Philippines. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022012906 ISBN 9781501767081 1501767089

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