Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan Contributor(s): Schueller, Malini Johar (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439918554 ISBN-13: 9781439918555 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $104.98 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American - History | United States - 20th Century |
Dewey: 370.95 |
LCCN: 2019009200 |
Series: Asian American History & Cultu |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.94 lbs) 324 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: The creation of a new school system in the Philippines in 1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior, following its politics of violence with benevolent recuperation. The pedagogy of recovery--in which schooling was central and natives were forced to accept empire through education--might have shown how Americans could be good occupiers, but it also created projects of Orientalist racial management: Filipinos had to be educated and civilized, while the Japanese had to be reeducated and "de-civilized." In Campaigns of Knowledge, Malini Schueller contrapuntally reads state-sanctioned proclamations, educational agendas, and school textbooks alongside political cartoons, novels, short stories, and films to demonstrate how the U.S. tutelary project was rerouted, appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted. In doing so, she highlights how schooling was conceived as a process of subjectification, creating particular modes of thought, behaviors, aspirations, and desires that would render the natives docile subjects amenable to American-style colonialism in the Philippines and occupation in Japan. |