BUNDOK : a hinterland history of filipino america

From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist extraction. Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States's Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing. From the emergence of Luzon's eighteenth-century tobacco industry and the Hawaii Sugar Planters' Association's documentation of workers to the movement of people and ideas across the Suez Canal and the stories of Filipino farmworkers in the American West, De Leon traces "the Filipino" as a racial category emerging from the labor, subjugation, archiving, and resistance of native people. De Leon's imaginatively constructed archive yields a sweeping history that promises to reshape our understanding of race making in the Pacific world. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Terminology and Use Prologue: Dos Hermanos de los Selváticos Introduction: Histories from the Hinterlands Part I. Building Luzon’s Racial Economy Chapter One. Rationalizing Race Chapter Two. The Work of the Filipino in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: In Two Parts Part II. Highlands Chapter Three. No Dog, No Work Chapter Four. They are by Nature and Custom Head Hunters Part III. Lowlands Chapter Five. Sugarcane Sakadas Chapter Six. Manongs on the Move Part IV. Filipino/America Chapter Seven. Two Insurgent Ethnologies Conclusion: A Tale of Two Mountains Notes Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z