Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Illicit Labor: MacArthur’s Mistress and Imperial Intimacies Radical History Review Volume 2015, Number 123 (October 2015) pages 87-114 DOI: 10.1215/01636545-3088168 Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Hawaii, Mānoa This essay examines a brief affair between General Douglas MacArthur and a mixed-race Filipina vaudeville actress named Isabel Rosario Cooper. It focuses on…