{"id":43118,"date":"2015-10-06T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43118"},"modified":"2015-10-06T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:04:43","slug":"illicit-labor-macarthurs-mistress-and-imperial-intimacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43118","title":{"rendered":"Illicit Labor: MacArthur&#8217;s Mistress and Imperial Intimacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/01636545-3088168\" target=\"_blank\">Illicit Labor: MacArthur&#8217;s Mistress and Imperial Intimacies<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rhr.dukejournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radical History Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rhr.dukejournals.org\/content\/2015\/123.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2015, Number 123<\/a> (October 2015)<br \/>\npages 87-114<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/01636545-3088168\" target=\"_blank\">10.1215\/01636545-3088168<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/amst\/people\/faculty\/vernadette-gonzalez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vernadette Vicu\u00f1a Gonzalez<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Hawaii, M\u0101noa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay examines a brief affair between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_MacArthur\" target=\"_blank\">General Douglas MacArthur<\/a> and a mixed-race Filipina vaudeville actress named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Cooper\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel Rosario Cooper<\/a>. It focuses on Cooper&#8217;s little-documented and underexamined life as a way to understand how the intimate politics of the bedroom overlapped with the libidinal economies of the cosmopolitan <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\">Philippine<\/a> entertainment industry, American military occupation, and broader geopolitical relations of imperial desire. Cooper and MacArthur&#8217;s liaison was constitutive of as well as constituted by the larger international \u201cromance\u201d between the United States and the Philippines that MacArthur himself oversaw in the early and middle part of the twentieth century. Going beyond the salacious details of an illicit love affair, this study seeks to illuminate how intimacy made up a type of imperial labor writ small, which served to underpin the project of US imperialism as crucially as colonial administration or military occupation.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/rhr.dukejournals.org\/content\/2015\/123\/87.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illicit Labor: MacArthur&#8217;s Mistress and Imperial Intimacies Radical History Review Volume 2015, Number 123 (October 2015) pages 87-114 DOI: 10.1215\/01636545-3088168 Vernadette Vicu\u00f1a Gonzalez, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Hawaii, M\u0101noa This essay examines a brief affair between General Douglas MacArthur and a mixed-race Filipina vaudeville actress named Isabel Rosario Cooper. It focuses on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1245,459,8,20],"tags":[21328,21326,6902,21325,1799,21327,21331,21330,21329],"class_list":["post-43118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-dimples-cooper","tag-douglas-macarthur","tag-elizabeth-cooper","tag-isabel-rosario-cooper","tag-philippines","tag-radical-history-review","tag-vernadette-gonzalez","tag-vernadette-v-gonzalez","tag-vernadette-vicuna-gonzalez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43119,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118\/revisions\/43119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}