oops, i'm getting my emails mixed up. i was wondering why linda hadn't send more of these emails to the group =)
von --- do unto others what you would have others do unto OTHERS =) http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/ 2009/12/31 Von Totanes <[email protected]> > no need to apologize. i was actually wondering why you hadn't sent more of > these emails to the group. i'm sure librarians would be interested in > acquiring these titles. > > happy new year! > > > von > > --- > do unto others what you would have others do unto OTHERS =) > http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/ > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM, cecil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I apologize for accidentally sending this to the group. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* cecil <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Tue, December 22, 2009 8:58:29 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [FilipinoLibrarians] Re: New Titles by Filipino Americans >> 12/15/09 >> >> Hi Ms. Linda, >> >> We'd like to order all the titles below. May we request for a billing for >> this so we can pay the 50% deposit in your Makati office? >> >> Thank you and happy holidays! >> >> Regards, >> Cecil Ingusan >> >> Filipinas Heritage Library >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Linda Nietes <[email protected]> >> *To:* filipino librarians <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Wed, December 16, 2009 1:29:51 PM >> *Subject:* [FilipinoLibrarians] Re: New Titles by Filipino Americans >> 12/15/09 >> >> We have a balikbayan box that will leave LA in the third >> week of Jan 2010 for Manila and if any of the titles below >> are of interest, please place your order by the 10th of Jan >> 2010 so that we can ship accordingly. You can pay our >> office in Makati in pesos based on the rate of exchange >> on the date that you placed your order. 50% deposit is >> required upon shipment and the balance due upon >> delivery in February 2010. Hope to hear from you all. >> Thanks. >> >> Linda >> >> --- >> Philippine Expressions Bookshop >> The Mail Order Bookshop dedicated to >> Filipino Americans in search of their roots. >> >> 2114 Trudie Drive >> Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-2006, USA >> Tel and Fax (310) 514-9139 >> ---- >> >> "Do not go where the path may lead, go >> instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo >> Emerson. >> >> We have blazed the trail in promoting Philippine books in America. >> 2009 marks our 25th year of service to the Filipino American community. >> Mabuhay. >> ---- >> >> --- On *Tue, 12/15/09, Linda Nietes <[email protected]>* wrote: >> >> >> From: Linda Nietes <[email protected]> >> Subject: New Titles by Filipino Americans 12/15/09 >> To: "linda nietes" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6:18 PM >> >> Dear Bibliophiles, >> >> The following new titles by Filipino American scholars are brought >> to you by your Community Bookseller. If you do not wish to receive >> further announcements of this nature, please contact us and we >> will remove your name from our mailing list. We look forward to >> be of further service. >> >> Linda Nietes >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *America’s Experts* >> >> *Race and the Fictions of Sociology* >> >> *Cynthia H. Tolentino* >> >> *[image: America’s Experts]* >> >> >> >> >> <https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780816651115&PRESS=minnesota>$22.50 >> paper >> ISBN: 978-0-8166-5111-5 >> >> $67.50 cloth >> ISBN: 978-0-8166-5110-8 >> >> >> >> >> Reveals the impact of sociology on ethnic literature and the politics of >> race >> >> During World War II, the rising visibility of anticolonial and antiracist >> movements exposed contradictions between the U.S. democratic mission in >> Europe and racist practices against people of color at home. Yet the >> professional success stories of people of color gave ideological support to >> the notion that liberal antiracism was spreading within the United States. >> >> >> Challenging conventional accounts of U.S. ethnic literature rooted in >> 1960s and 1970s social movements, Cynthia H. Tolentino sees this literary >> work as emerging from a political climate in which arguments about the >> integration of racial minorities and the moral legitimacy of U.S. >> international leadership are intertwined. Probing how sociologists including >> Robert E. Park, Gunnar Myrdal, and Emory Bogardus situated Asian Americans, >> Filipinos, and African Americans as model citizens and problems, Tolentino >> contends that such studies served as a staging ground for writers of color >> to become narrators of racial identity, citizenship, and U.S. >> neocolonialism. >> >> >> Tracing the literary engagements of Richard Wright, Carlos Bulosan, and >> Jade Snow Wong with the sociology of race, Tolentino assesses their works as >> critical expressions of class negotiation on the global stage and >> illuminates the significance of U.S. ethnic literature. >> >> *Cynthia H. Tolentino *is assistant professor of English at the >> University of Oregon. >> >> 200 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 2009 >> >> *TABLE OF CONTENTS* >> >> Introduction: Between Subjects and Objects >> >> 1. Sociological Interests, Racial Reform: Richard Wright’s Intellectual of >> Color >> >> 2. Americanization as Black Professionalization: Gunnar Myrdal’s *An >> American Dilemma*** >> >> 3. Training for the American Century: Professional Filipinos in Carlos >> Bulosan’s *America Is in the Heart*** >> >> 4. Not Black, Not Coolies: Pathologization, Asian American Citizenship, >> and Jade Snow Wong’s *Fifth Chinese Daughter* >> >> Coda: The Tutelary Byways of Global Uplift >> >> Acknowledgments >> Notes >> Index >> >> >> >> *The Decolonized Eye* >> >> *Filipino American Art and Performance* >> >> *Sarita Echavez See* >> >> * * >> >> * >> ** >> <http://www.upress.umn.edu/events/events.html> * >> >> [image: The Decolonized >> Eye]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/F2009/9780816653188.big.gif> >> >> >> >> <https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780816653195&PRESS=minnesota>$25.00 >> paper >> ISBN: 978-0-8166-5319-5 >> >> $75.00 cloth >> ISBN: 978-0-8166-5318-8 >> >> >> >> >> Filipino American artists map and contest the United States’ amnesia about >> its colonization of the Philippines >> >> From the late 1980s to the present, artists of Filipino descent in the >> United States have produced a challenging and creative movement. In *The >> Decolonized Eye, *Sarita Echavez See shows how these artists have engaged >> with the complex aftermath of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines. >> >> >> Focusing on artists working in New York and California, See examines the >> overlapping artistic and aesthetic practices and concerns of filmmaker Angel >> Shaw, painter Manuel Ocampo, installation artist Paul Pfeiffer, comedian Rex >> Navarrete, performance artist Nicky Paraiso, and sculptor Reanne Estrada to >> explain the reasons for their strangely shadowy presence in American culture >> and scholarship. Offering an interpretation of their creations that accounts >> for their queer, decolonizing strategies of camp, mimesis, and humor, See >> reveals the conditions of possibility that constitute this contemporary >> archive. >> >> >> By analyzing art, performance, and visual culture, *The Decolonized Eye* >> illuminates >> the unexpected consequences of America’s amnesia over its imperial history. >> >> * >> * >> >> *Sarita Echavez See* is associate professor of Asian/Pacific Islander >> American studies at the University of Michigan. >> >> 232 pages | 25 b&w illustrations, 13 color plates | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 2009 >> >> *TABLE OF CONTENTS* >> >> Acknowledgments >> >> Introduction: Foreign in a Domestic Sense >> >> Part I. Staging the Sublime >> 1. An Open Wound: Angel Shaw and Manuel Ocampo >> 2. A Queer Horizon: Paul Pfeiffer’s Disintegrating Figure Studies >> >> Part II. Pilipinos Are Punny, Freud Is Filipino >> 3. Why Filipinos Make Pun(s) of One Another: The* Sikolohiya*/Psychology >> of Rex Navarrete’s Stand-up Comedy >> 4. “He will not always say what you would have him say”: Loss and Aural >> (Be)Longing in Nicky Paraiso’s* House/Boy* >> >> Conclusion: Reanne Estrada, Identity, and the Politics of Abstraction >> >> Notes >> Bibliography >> Index >> >> >> *Suspended Apocalypse* >> >> *White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition* >> >> *Dylan Rodríguez** >> * >> >> [image: Suspended >> Apocalypse]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/F2009/9780816653508.big.gif> >> >> >> >> <https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780816653508&PRESS=minnesota>$25.00 >> paper >> ISBN: 978-0-8166-5350-8 >> >> $75.00 cloth >> ISBN: 978-0-8166-5349-2 >> >> >> >> >> Examines the Filipino American as a product of conquest, white supremacy, >> and racial empire >> >> * >> * >> >> *Suspended Apocalypse* is a rich and provocative meditation on the >> emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from >> historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan Rodríguez provides a >> sophisticated analysis of the Filipino presence in the American imaginary. >> Radically critiquing current conceptions of Filipino American identity, >> community, and history, he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, >> rooted in the early twentieth-century military, political, and cultural >> subjugation of the Philippines by the United States. >> >> *Suspended Apocalypse* critically addresses what Rodríguez calls >> “Filipino American communion,” interrogating redemptive and romantic notions >> of Filipino migration and settlement in the United States in relation to >> larger histories of race, colonial conquest, and white supremacy. >> Contemporary popular and scholarly discussions of the Filipino American are, >> he asserts, inseparable from their origins in the violent racist regimes of >> the United States and its historical successor, liberal multiculturalism. >> >> >> Rodríguez deftly contrasts the colonization of the Philippines with >> present-day disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Mount Pinatubo to show >> how the global subjection of Philippine, black, and indigenous peoples >> create a linked history of genocide. But in these juxtapositions, Rodríguez >> finds moments and spaces of radical opportunity. Engaging the violence and >> disruption of the Filipino condition sets the stage, he argues, for the >> possibility of a transformation of the political lens through which >> contemporary empire might be analyzed, understood, and perhaps even >> overcome. >> >> * >> * >> >> *Dylan Rodríguez* is associate professor of ethnic studies at the >> University of California, Riverside. He is the author of *Forced >> Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison >> Regime<http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/rodriguez_forced.html> >> *(Minnesota, 2006). >> >> 256 pages | 5 b&w illustrations | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | December 2009 >> >> >> >> *American Tropics* >> >> *Articulating Filipino America* >> >> *Allan Punzalan Isaac* >> * >> * >> >> [image: American >> Tropics]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/F2006/0816642745.big.gif> >> >> >> $22.50 Paper >> ISBN: 0-8166-4274-5 >> ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4274-8 >> >> $60.00 Cloth >> ISBN: 0-8166-4273-7 >> ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4273-1 >> >> >> >> *Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies' 2006 Book Award in >> the Cultural Studies* >> >> >> How America’s image of the Philippines reflects the U.S. inability to see >> its own imperialism. >> >> >> In 1997, when the *New York Times* described Filipino American serial >> killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing “to be everywhere and nowhere,” Allan >> Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the >> United States, symptomatic of American imperialism’s invisibility to itself. >> In *American Tropics,* Isaac explores American fantasies about the >> Philippines and other “unincorporated” parts of the U.S. nation that obscure >> the contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies. >> >> >> Isaac boldly examines the American empire’s images of the Philippines in >> turn-of-the-century legal debates over Puerto Rico, Progressive-era popular >> literature set in Latin American borderlands, and midcentury Hollywood >> cinema staged in Hawai‘i and the Pacific islands. Isaac scrutinizes media >> coverage of the Cunanan case, Boy Scout adventure novels, and Hollywood >> films such as *The Real Glory* (1939) and *Blue Hawaii *(1961) to argue >> that territorial sites of occupation are an important part of American >> identity.* American Tropics* further reveals the imperial imagination’s >> role in shaping national meaning in novels such as Carlos Bulosan’s *America >> Is in the Heart *(1946) and Jessica Hagedorn’s *Dogeaters* (1990), >> Filipino American novels forced to articulate the empire’s enfolded but >> disavowed borders. >> >> >> Tracing the American empire from the beginning of the twentieth century to >> Philippine liberation and the U.S. civil rights movement, *American >> Tropics* lays bare Filipino Americans’ unique form of belonging marked >> indelibly by imperialism and at odds with U.S. racial politics and culture. >> >> >> “Isaac is bold in his examination of America’s images of the Philippines >> and Filipinos as depicted in law, media coverage, literature, and Hollywood >> cinema.” —*Colonial Latin American Historical Review* >> >> >> “Isaac commands the reader’s attention through his thoughtful, consistent, >> and serious critique of hypocrisies and aporiae within empire, as well as by >> his smart and engaging narrative. *American Tropics* is a noteworthy and >> important text, one that will compel scholars to redraw the cartographies of >> Filipino/American imaginaries.” —*Journal of American Ethnic History* >> >> * >> * >> >> *Allan Punzalan Isaac* is assistant professor of English at Wesleyan >> University. >> >> 256 pages | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2006 >> Critical American Studies Series<http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/CAS.html> >> >> *TABLE OF CONTENTS* >> >> Acknowledgments >> Introduction >> 1. American Tropics >> >> Part I. An Imperial Grammar >> 2. Disappearing Clauses: Reconstituting America in the Unincorporated >> Territories >> 3. Moral Sentences: Boy Scouts and Novel Encounters with Empire >> 4. Imperial Romance: Framing Manifest Destiny in the Pacific >> >> Part II. Toward an American Postcolonial Syntax >> 5. Reconstituting American Subjects: Proximate Masculinities >> 6. Reconstituting American Predicates: Troping the American *Tour >> d’Horison* >> >> Coda >> Notes >> Index >> >> >> *Model-Minority Imperialism* >> >> *Victor Bascara* >> * >> * >> >> [image: Model-Minority >> Imperialism]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/S06/0816645124.big.gif> >> >> >> $22.50 Paper >> ISBN: 0-8166-4512-4 >> ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4512-1 >> >> $58.50 Cloth >> ISBN: 0-8166-4511-6 >> ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4511-4 >> >> >> >> Understanding the legacy of U.S. imperialism through Asian American >> culture. >> >> At the beginning of the twentieth century, soon after the conclusion of >> the Spanish-American War, the United States was an imperialistic nation, >> maintaining (often with the assistance of military force) a far-flung and >> growing empire. After a long period of collective national amnesia regarding >> American colonialism, in the Philippines and elsewhere, scholars have >> resurrected the power of “empire” as a way of revealing American history and >> culture. >> >> >> Focusing on the terms of Asian American assimilation and the rise of the >> model-minority myth, Victor Bascara examines the resurgence of empire as a >> tool for acknowledging—and understanding—the legacy of American imperialism. >> >> *Model-Minority Imperialism* links geopolitical dramas of >> twentieth-century empire building with domestic controversies of U.S. racial >> order by examining the cultural politics of Asian Americans as they are >> revealed in fiction, film, and theatrical productions. Tracing U.S. economic >> and political hegemony back to the beginning of the twentieth century >> through works by Jessica Hagedorn, R. Zamora Linmark, and Sui Sin Far; >> discourses of race, economics, and empire found in the speeches of William >> McKinley and William Jennings Bryan; as well as L. Frank Baum’s *The >> Wonderful Wizard of Oz* and other texts, Bascara’s innovative readings >> uncover the repressed story of U.S. imperialism and unearth the demand that >> the present empire reckon with its past. >> >> >> Bascara deploys the analytical approaches of both postcolonial studies and >> Asian American studies, two fields that developed in parallel but have only >> begun to converge, to reveal how the vocabulary of empire reasserted itself >> through some of the very people who inspired the U.S imperialist mission. >> >> “*Model-Minority Imperialism* is a complex, stimulating, and rich text >> with a multitude of intriguing cases for scholars of Asian American studies, >> ethnic studies, and American and global studies more generally.” —*MELUS* >> >> * >> * >> >> *Victor Bascara* is assistant professor of English and Asian American >> studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. >> >> 232 pages | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2006 >> >> *TABLE OF CONTENTS* >> >> Preface >> Introduction: We Are Here Because You Were There >> >> 1. Unburdening Empire: The Cultural Politics of Asian American Difference >> 2. An Ever-Emergent Empire: The Discourse of American Exceptionalism >> 3. “The American Earth Was Like a Huge Heart”: Old Dreams and the New >> Imperialism >> 4. Uplifting Race, Reconstructing Empire >> 5. “Everybody Wants To Be Farrah”: Absurd Histories and Historical >> Absurdities Epilogue: Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden >> >> Notes >> >> >> *Migrants for Export >> >> How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World >> >> Robyn Magalit Rodriguez* >> >> [image: Migrants for >> Export]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/S10/9780816665280.big.gif> >> >> $22.50 paper >> ISBN 978-0-8166-6528-0 >> $67.50 cloth >> ISBN 978-0-8166-6527-3 >> >> >> >> How the Philippines transformed itself into the world’s leading labor >> brokerage state >> >> >> Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, >> with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred >> countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president >> Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of >> state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million >> Filipinos who live and work abroad.” >> >> Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government >> transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which >> actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work >> abroad. Filipino men and women fill a range of jobs around the globe, >> including domestic work, construction, and engineering, and they have even >> worked in the Middle East to support U.S. military operations. At the same >> time, the state redefines nationalism to normalize its citizens to migration >> while fostering their ties to the Philippines. Those who leave the country >> to work and send their wages to their families at home are treated as new >> national heroes. >> >> >> Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government’s migration >> bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new >> analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state >> formation. >> >> >> *Robyn Magalit Rodriguez *is assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers >> University. >> >> >> 208 pages | 24 b&w photos | 2 tables | March 2010 >> >> >> --- >> Philippine Expressions Bookshop >> The Mail Order Bookshop dedicated to >> Filipino Americans in search of their roots. >> >> 2114 Trudie Drive >> Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-2006, USA >> Tel and Fax (310) 514-9139 >> ---- >> >> "Do not go where the path may lead, go >> instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo >> Emerson. >> >> We have blazed the trail in promoting Philippine books in America. >> 2009 marks our 25th year of service to the Filipino American community. >> Mabuhay. >> ---- >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Filipino Librarians" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<filipinolibrarians%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Filipino Librarians" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<filipinolibrarians%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. 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