Legitimizing Empire: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique by Faye Caronan

Legitimizing Empire: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique

Asian American Experience

Faye Caronan

208 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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When the United States acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico, it reconciled its status as an empire with its anticolonial roots by claiming that it would altruistically establish democratic institutions in its new colonies. Ever since, Filipino...

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