{"product_id":"emotional-filipinos-1","title":"Emotional Filipinos","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 \u003ci\u003eemotions \u003c\/i\u003eas 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, \u003ci\u003eEmotional Filipinos\u003c\/i\u003e 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":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56408839258456,"sku":"9780820375458","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780820375458.jpg?v=1778762748","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/emotional-filipinos-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}