{"id":53834,"date":"2017-05-05T23:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T23:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53834"},"modified":"2017-05-05T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T23:15:05","slug":"enrico-dungcas-the-amerasian-photography-project-the-forgotten-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53834","title":{"rendered":"Enrico Dungca\u2019s The Amerasian Photography Project: The Forgotten Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/resourcemagonline.com\/2015\/08\/enrico-dungcas-the-amerasian-photography-project-the-forgotten-americans\/56657\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Enrico Dungca\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>The Amerasian Photography Project: The Forgotten Americans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/resourcemagonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Resource<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicexperiences.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Marky Ramone Go<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/93453814\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As one of the free world\u2019s oldest allies, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philippines<\/a> have shared a storied past together. From fighting alongside each other to delay the Japanese\u2019 war plans in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World War II<\/a>, to forming an armed presence in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific<\/a> by virtue of the United States two military bases; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clark_Air_Base\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clark Air Base<\/a> and US Naval Base in Northern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luzon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luzon<\/a>. However, hidden from these historical bonds lies a complex weave of direct blood descendants, of abandoned children sired by some members of the US Military during their service at the US bases in the Philippines, a large legion of fatherless men and women who possess multi-ethnicity looks born to single mothers, remains in search of half their roots.\u00a0Often bullied in school for growing up in a broken household, these individuals harbors a secret wish of knowing their real fathers. For photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enricodungca.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enrico Dungca<\/a>, photographing them in order to send their message across the globe became a personal mission <em>\u201cThe story begins with a young man I met during a trip in my birthplace, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angeles,_Philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angeles City<\/a>. I was born and raised there and lived near the former Clark Air Base. I knew about the Amerasians and in fact witnessed many of them bullied and discriminated. I didn\u2019t think much of it then for I was young and naive,\u201d<\/em> Dungca tells <em>Resource Magazine<\/em>. \u00a0More than 20 years after the last US Military Base closed down, an undeniable footprint of our Superpower ally still remains \u2013 and for some, something that needs to find closure soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/resourcemagonline.com\/2015\/08\/enrico-dungcas-the-amerasian-photography-project-the-forgotten-americans\/56657\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, hidden from these historical bonds lies a complex weave of direct blood descendants, of abandoned children sired by some members of the US Military during their service at the US bases in the Philippines, a large legion of fatherless men and women who possess multi-ethnicity looks born to single mothers, remains in search of half their roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,459,8,20],"tags":[23067,26953,1799,147,26954],"class_list":["post-53834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-enrico-dungca","tag-marky-ramone-go","tag-philippines","tag-photography","tag-resource-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834","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=53834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53835,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834\/revisions\/53835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}