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 1Rick Bonus and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.Section A: ReckoningPart I: Empire as Endless War1. Empire: Turns and Returns 33Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez2. Empire as the Rule of War and Fascism 42Nerissa S. Balce3. Empire: US States at the Intersection of Diaspora and Indigeneity 57Dean Itsuji Saranillio4. The Persistence of War through Migration 67Cynthia Marasigan5. Liminal Services: Third Spaces of Being within the United States 83JoAnna Poblete6. "Genocide" and the Poetics of Alter-Being in the Obsolescence of the "Filipino American" 91Dylan RodríguezPart II: Labor and Knowledge/Power7. Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire 103Josen Masangkay Diaz8. On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual 111Victor Bascara9. The Limits of "Immigration" Frameworks:Centering Empire in Analyzing Migration and the Diaspora 118Roy B. Taggueg Jr. and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez10. Including the Excluded:The "Chinese" in the Philippines and the Study of "Migration" in Filipinx American Studies 128Richard T. Chu11. Labor and Carework 138Anna Romina Guevarra12. The Labor of History in Filipinx Historiography 148Jody BlancoSection B: ReclamationPart III: Across Language, Sex-Gender, and Space-Time Geographies13. Pag-uugat at Paglalayag (Roots and Journeys): Filipino Language Learning and Activism 165Joi Barrios14. In an Archipelago and Sea of Complexities: Contemporary Intersectional / Transpacific / Decolonial Queer and/or Trans Filipinx American Studies 174Kale Bantigue Fajardo15. Datíng as Affect in Filipinx Migration 185Allan Punzalan Isaac16. Gender: A Transpacific Feminist Approach to Filipinx Studies 192Denise Cruz17. The Contingencies of Kasarian 201Robert DiazPart IV: Critical Schooling and Justice in Other Words18. Filipinx Americans and Higher Education 211Dina C. Maramba19. Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models 221Reuben B. Deleon20. Third World Studies and the Living Archive of US-based Filipinx Activism 229Michael Schulze-Oechtering21. Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies 239Jeffrey Santa Ana22. Filipinx American Activism—and Why I Once Loved Manny Pacquiao 256Karín Aguilar-San Juan23. Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific 267Kim CompocSection C: TransformationPart V: Relationalities, Intimacies, and Entanglements24. Filipinxness: An Epochal Perspective 279Anthony Bayani Rodriguez25. A Tale of Two "X"s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies 284Sony Coráñez Bolton26. Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians 291Angelica J. Allen27. Why I Don't (Really) Consider Myself a Filipinx:Complicating "Filipinxness" from a Katutubo Intervention 298J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez28. Repertoires on Other Stages 308Theodore S. GonzalvesPart VI: Recalcitrant Bodies, Unruly Vernaculars29. Confronting Worldly Acts: Filipinx Performances and Their Elsewheres 323Lucy MSP Burns30. Aye Nako!: The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility 335Alana J. Bock31. Who Cares?: Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies 343Edward Nadurata32. Dalaga na!: Gender and Youth Studies Come of Age in Filipinx Studies 352Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez33. Unpacking Hiya: (Trans)national "Traits" and the (Un)making of Filipinxness 362Martin F. Manalansan IV34. Language Run Amok 370Sarita Echavez SeeAfterword 379Gina ApostolAppendixes: Key Resources in Filipinx American StudiesA. A Selection of Library Research Tools and Web Resources Related to Filipinx American Studies 385Gerardo A. ColmenarB. Selected List of Scholarship on Filipinx American Studies 403Edward NadurataAcknowledgments 415List of Contributors 419Index 435