Colonizing Filipinas

"Documents about the early period of American rule in the Philippines contain many silences and gaps surrounding the question of Filipino women in American colonial discourse. This is especially the case in those written documents that have been traditionally accepted as the sources of historical investigation by mainstream professional historians. Representation of Filipinas by American colonizers from 1898 to 1910 renders invisible historical Filipinas of the past, re-presenting them in written and visual texts as white Americans perceived them. These colonial histories write more about the colonizers than the people they colonized, concentrating on the margins of Philippine colonial society and particular historical knowledge about the Philippines. Colonizing Filipinas is about those colonial processes that formed Filipinos and Philippine colonial society. It is about the debt that colonialism owes to Filipinas."--BOOK JACKET.