{"title":"George Baylon Radics","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"emotional-filipinos-by-george-baylon-radics-9780820375441","title":"Emotional Filipinos","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of race and modernity left a profound imprint on the nation. More recently, we have seen a menacing rise of Islamic “terrorism,” political polarization, populism, xenophobia, and isolationism. Conventional wisdom has attributed this rise to a “failed state” or economic insecurity and cultural backlash. In this book, however, George Radics explains this forgotten part of U.S. history with \u003ci\u003eemotions \u003c\/i\u003eas a driving force behind social action. The Philippines is currently experiencing the longest-running Muslim-Christian conflict in the modern world and an increasingly anti-Western populist government. By unpacking the role of emotions from the American colonial period to the present, \u003ci\u003eEmotional Filipinos\u003c\/i\u003e blurs the line between American colonizer and Muslim-Filipino “terrorist,” highlighting the lasting effects of America’s footprint in Southeast Asia. Radics humanizes this fraught history and reveals unexplored connections between past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933986636012,"sku":"9780820375441","price":396.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780820375441-emotional-filipinos.jpg?v=1783889086"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/george-baylon-radics.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}