Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines

ISBN-13: 9781108461009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 339 str.

Sarah Steinbock-Pratt

Opis

Examines the contested process of colonial education in the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War.

Recenzje

'Educating the Empire should be standard reading for anybody seeking to understand the cultural history of US colonialism in the Philippines.' Oliver Charbonneau, American Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Creating a catalog of colonial knowledge; 2. A civil empire: determining fitness for colonial education; 3. Professionals and pioneers: teachers' self-depiction in empire; 4. Recreating race: evolving notions of whiteness and blackness in empire; 5. A political education: Americans, Filipinos, and the meanings of instruction; 6. All politics is local: American teachers and their communities; 7. Speaking for ourselves: dignity and the politics of student protest; Epilogue.