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Thurs 2/2 6:30pm CSB 002 – screening of History and Memory Finish reading America is in the Heart for Thurs Prof. Solomon’s office hours – T/ Th 1:15 to 12:45 in LIT 354 or by appointment. Announcements. Filipino/American. Lecture #5: The Manongs & Imperial Hypersexualization.

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  1. Thurs 2/2 6:30pm CSB 002 – screening of History and Memory • Finish reading America is in the Heart for Thurs • Prof. Solomon’s office hours – T/Th 1:15 to 12:45 in LIT 354 or by appointment Announcements

  2. Filipino/American Lecture #5: The Manongs & Imperial Hypersexualization

  3. 1763 – “Manilamen” of Louisiana • 1902 – 1934 – Philippines under US military government • US nationals – Filipino American vs Filipino/American • Large influx of immigrants – almost 150,000 nationally (including HI) by 1920; 30,470 in CA alone • “pensionados” • Laborers in Hawaiian plantations – 110,00 • “Alaskeros” – about 3,500 • Domestic help/Service labor – about 10,000 • Mainland stoop and migrant farm labor – about 30,000 Filipino/American

  4. 1902-1934 = “manong” generation • “manong” – Ilocano term of respect for elder male relatives • 94% male, agricultural peasant class and under the age of 30 • Factors of immigration: • Increased land dispossession due to transition from Spanish to American governance • Agricultural depression due to drought – particularly in Ilocos • Ilocano tradition of inter-regional cultivation • Contract-labor system and sojourner mentality • Spanish Catholic gender norms • American “new” imperialism The Manong Generation

  5. Segregation of private businesses and spaces • Naturalization Law of 1790 still in effect • Alien Land Laws and racist housing practices – find community in Chinatowns, few Manilatowns develop • Onset of Great Depression exacerbates labor competition between poor whites and Filipinos • Late 1920s – Anti-Filipino riots up and down west coast • Dec 1929 – Watsonville Riot – white mob attacks Filipino labor camp; riot lasts 3 days; Filipino casualties Positively No Filipinos Allowed

  6. Racial castration vsimperial hypersexualization • Taxi dance halls  sites of racial mixing, class alliances, violation of gender norms • “You can realize, with the declared preference of the Filipino for white women and the willingness on the part of some white females to yield to that preference, the situation which arises… California in this matter is seeking to protect the nation, as well as itself, against the peaceful penetration of another colored race” (V.S. McClatchy, Congressional hearings on Filipino immigration) • The Filipino and the fear of miscegenation: • Roldan v Los Angeles (1933) • Independence seen as solution to problem of Filipino immigration threatening both white labor and white purity “Dollar a day, dime a dance”

  7. 1934 – passage of Tydings McDuffie Act • 10 year deadline for independence • Creates Philippine Commonwealth • Immigration limited to 50 annually (except HI) and Filipinos reclassified immediately as aliens • 1935 Filipino Repatriation Act • US government will pay to send Filipino immigrants home • July 4, 1946 – Philippine Independence recognized Philippine Independence

  8. Midterm Paper- Due 2/14 • Both Bone and America is in the Heart are two texts that challenge and complicate linear narrative structures. How are the narrative structures related to the theme of “progress” in both texts? Specifically, what is the relationship between the theme of progress in the novels and the historical and social conditions of Filipino and Chinese immigration? Write a thesis-based essay that defines the concept of “progress” in Bone and America is in the Heart and argues how the theme of progress in the novels is related to the historical conditions of Chinese and Filipino immigration. • In America is in the Heart and Citizen 13660, Filipino and Japanese Americans are simultaneously included yet excluded from the US, creating an ambiguous political condition for both groups. How are processes of racialization determining this push and pull between US inclusion and exclusion of these groups? How do America is in the Heart and Citizen 13660 present and respond to the racializing forces excluding Filipino and Japanese Americans from the US political and cultural body? Write a thesis-based essay that defines the term racialization and argues how racialization affects the inclusion and exclusion of Filipinos and Japanese Americans in America is in the Heart and Citizen 13660.

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