Crip Colony
Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 2023
224 pages
978-1-4780-2418-7 (ISBN)
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Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire.
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Crip Colony
Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
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Sony Coráñez Bolton is Assistant Professor of Spanish, American studies, and Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Crip Colonial Critique: Reading Mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines 1
1. Benevolent Rehabilitation and the Colonial Bodymind: Filipinx American Studies as Disability Studies 33
2. Mad María Clara: The Queer Aesthetics of Mestizaje and Compulsory Able-Mindedness 67
3. Filipino Itineraries, Orientalizing Impairments: Chinese Foot-Binding and the Crip Coloniality of Travel Literature 99
4. A Colonial Model of Disability: Running Amok in the Mad Colonial Archive of the Philippines 131
Epilogue. A Song from Subic: Racial Disposability and the Intimacy of Cultural Translation 162
Notes 171
Bibliography 187
Index 197
Crip Colonial Critique: Reading Mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines 1
1. Benevolent Rehabilitation and the Colonial Bodymind: Filipinx American Studies as Disability Studies 33
2. Mad María Clara: The Queer Aesthetics of Mestizaje and Compulsory Able-Mindedness 67
3. Filipino Itineraries, Orientalizing Impairments: Chinese Foot-Binding and the Crip Coloniality of Travel Literature 99
4. A Colonial Model of Disability: Running Amok in the Mad Colonial Archive of the Philippines 131
Epilogue. A Song from Subic: Racial Disposability and the Intimacy of Cultural Translation 162
Notes 171
Bibliography 187
Index 197
