This presentation will explore whether and how race
and class intersect in historical linkages between the
identity of the Filipino as it was constructed during
the American colonization of the Philippines and
contemporary media-based construction of the Philippine
lower class. How did political cartoons and
caricatures in American periodicals construct the
Filipino as a race during the period of colonization
when American racial categories were transplanted
to the Philippines? How do today’s Filipino elite
construct the lower class in Philippine publications,
including cartoons, caricatures, and commentaries?
Is there a connection between the U.S. racial
construction of the Filipino and today’s Filipino elite
construction of the lower class?
Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 12:00-1:00 pm
Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th St. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. USA
807 E. 10th St. | 812-856-5361 | acc@indiana.edu | www.iub.edu/~acc