Lecture: Filipinos, Filipino-Americans and the Politics of Imperial Amnesia
In this lecture, Professor Oscar V. Campomanes will briefly recount the history and politics of U.S. imperial amnesia in the making of American modernity and the U.S. “New Empire.” He will then proceed to discuss the role of the “benevolent assimilation” of the Philippines and the question of Filipino/Filipino-American “assimilability” in the effective consolidation and continuing refinement of this amnesiac history and politics.
Professor Campomanes will argue that the conquest of the Philippines and the migration of Filipinos to the U.S., from the advent of the 20th century, present fundamentally enabling cases to critical considerations of American modernity and contemporary American practices of Empire.
