{"product_id":"9780820375458","title":"Emotional Filipinos : The American Myth of the \"Lazy Native\" and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines - George Baylon Radics","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image-one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of race and modernity left a profound imprint on the nation. More recently, we have seen a menacing rise of Islamic \"terrorism,\" political polarization, populism, xenophobia, and isolationism. Conventional wisdom has attributed this rise to a \"failed state\" or economic insecurity and cultural backlash. In this book, however, George Radics explains this forgotten part of U.S. history with emotions as a driving force behind social action. The Philippines is currently experiencing the longest-running Muslim-Christian conflict in the modern world and an increasingly anti-Western populist government. By unpacking the role of emotions from the American colonial period to the present, Emotional Filipinos blurs the line between American colonizer and Muslim-Filipino \"terrorist,\" highlighting the lasting effects of America's footprint in Southeast Asia. Radics humanizes this fraught history and reveals unexplored connections between past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Baylon Radics","offers":[{"title":"256 pages, 7 b\u0026w images \/ 15\/04\/2026 \/ South East Asia","offer_id":56966904316279,"sku":"9780820375458","price":31.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780820375458","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}