{"id":53981,"date":"2017-05-23T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53981"},"modified":"2017-05-23T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:20:04","slug":"american-mestizos-the-philippines-and-the-malleability-of-race-1898-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53981","title":{"rendered":"American Mestizos, The Philippines, and the Malleability of Race: 1898-1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Mestizos-Philippines-Malleability-Race\/dp\/082622122X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>American Mestizos, The Philippines, and the Malleability of Race: 1898-1961<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/press.umsystem.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Missouri Press<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-28<br \/>\n208 pages<br \/>\n6 x 0.9 x 9 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0826221223<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphiaencyclopedia.org\/archive\/nicholas-trajano-molnar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Nicholas Trajano Molnar<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/em><br \/>\nalso Digital Humanities Officer, <em>Immigration and Ethnic History Society<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Mestizos-Philippines-Malleability-Race\/dp\/082622122X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41AI-mLaKYL.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American mestizos, a group that emerged in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philippines<\/a> after it was colonized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States<\/a>, became a serious social concern for expatriate Americans and Filipino nationalists far disproportionate to their actual size, confounding observers who debated where they fit into the racial schema of the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Across the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific<\/a>, these same mestizos were racialized in a way that characterized them as a asset to the United States, opening up the possibility of their assimilation to American society during a period characterized by immigration restriction and fears of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">miscegenation<\/a>. Drawing upon Philippine and American archives, Nicholas Trajano Molnar documents the imposed and self-ascribed racializations of the American mestizos, demonstrating that the boundaries of their racial identity shifted across time and space with no single identity coalescing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American mestizos, a group that emerged in the Philippines after it was colonized by the United States, became a serious social concern for expatriate Americans and Filipino nationalists far disproportionate to their actual size, confounding observers who debated where they fit into the racial schema of the island nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,459,8,17,20],"tags":[18963,1799,769],"class_list":["post-53981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-nicholas-trajano-molnar","tag-philippines","tag-university-of-missouri-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53981","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=53981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53983,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53981\/revisions\/53983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}