no need to apologize. i was actually wondering why you hadn't sent more of these emails to the group. i'm sure librarians would be interested in acquiring these titles.
happy new year! von --- do unto others what you would have others do unto OTHERS =) http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM, cecil <[email protected]> wrote: > I apologize for accidentally sending this to the group. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* cecil <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tue, December 22, 2009 8:58:29 AM > *Subject:* Re: [FilipinoLibrarians] Re: New Titles by Filipino Americans > 12/15/09 > > Hi Ms. Linda, > > We'd like to order all the titles below. May we request for a billing for > this so we can pay the 50% deposit in your Makati office? > > Thank you and happy holidays! > > Regards, > Cecil Ingusan > > Filipinas Heritage Library > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Linda Nietes <[email protected]> > *To:* filipino librarians <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wed, December 16, 2009 1:29:51 PM > *Subject:* [FilipinoLibrarians] Re: New Titles by Filipino Americans > 12/15/09 > > We have a balikbayan box that will leave LA in the third > week of Jan 2010 for Manila and if any of the titles below > are of interest, please place your order by the 10th of Jan > 2010 so that we can ship accordingly. You can pay our > office in Makati in pesos based on the rate of exchange > on the date that you placed your order. 50% deposit is > required upon shipment and the balance due upon > delivery in February 2010. Hope to hear from you all. > Thanks. > > Linda > > --- > Philippine Expressions Bookshop > The Mail Order Bookshop dedicated to > Filipino Americans in search of their roots. > > 2114 Trudie Drive > Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-2006, USA > Tel and Fax (310) 514-9139 > ---- > > "Do not go where the path may lead, go > instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo > Emerson. > > We have blazed the trail in promoting Philippine books in America. > 2009 marks our 25th year of service to the Filipino American community. > Mabuhay. > ---- > > --- On *Tue, 12/15/09, Linda Nietes <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Linda Nietes <[email protected]> > Subject: New Titles by Filipino Americans 12/15/09 > To: "linda nietes" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6:18 PM > > Dear Bibliophiles, > > The following new titles by Filipino American scholars are brought > to you by your Community Bookseller. If you do not wish to receive > further announcements of this nature, please contact us and we > will remove your name from our mailing list. We look forward to > be of further service. > > Linda Nietes > > ------------------------------ > > *America’s Experts* > > *Race and the Fictions of Sociology* > > *Cynthia H. Tolentino* > > *[image: America’s Experts]* > > > > > <https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780816651115&PRESS=minnesota>$22.50 > paper > ISBN: 978-0-8166-5111-5 > > $67.50 cloth > ISBN: 978-0-8166-5110-8 > > > > > Reveals the impact of sociology on ethnic literature and the politics of > race > > During World War II, the rising visibility of anticolonial and antiracist > movements exposed contradictions between the U.S. democratic mission in > Europe and racist practices against people of color at home. Yet the > professional success stories of people of color gave ideological support to > the notion that liberal antiracism was spreading within the United States. > > > Challenging conventional accounts of U.S. ethnic literature rooted in 1960s > and 1970s social movements, Cynthia H. Tolentino sees this literary work as > emerging from a political climate in which arguments about the integration > of racial minorities and the moral legitimacy of U.S. international > leadership are intertwined. Probing how sociologists including Robert E. > Park, Gunnar Myrdal, and Emory Bogardus situated Asian Americans, Filipinos, > and African Americans as model citizens and problems, Tolentino contends > that such studies served as a staging ground for writers of color to become > narrators of racial identity, citizenship, and U.S. neocolonialism. > > > Tracing the literary engagements of Richard Wright, Carlos Bulosan, and > Jade Snow Wong with the sociology of race, Tolentino assesses their works as > critical expressions of class negotiation on the global stage and > illuminates the significance of U.S. ethnic literature. > > *Cynthia H. Tolentino *is assistant professor of English at the University > of Oregon. > > 200 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 2009 > > *TABLE OF CONTENTS* > > Introduction: Between Subjects and Objects > > 1. Sociological Interests, Racial Reform: Richard Wright’s Intellectual of > Color > > 2. Americanization as Black Professionalization: Gunnar Myrdal’s *An > American Dilemma*** > > 3. Training for the American Century: Professional Filipinos in Carlos > Bulosan’s *America Is in the Heart*** > > 4. Not Black, Not Coolies: Pathologization, Asian American Citizenship, and > Jade Snow Wong’s *Fifth Chinese Daughter* > > Coda: The Tutelary Byways of Global Uplift > > Acknowledgments > Notes > Index > > > > *The Decolonized Eye* > > *Filipino American Art and Performance* > > *Sarita Echavez See* > > * * > > * > ** > <http://www.upress.umn.edu/events/events.html> * > > [image: The Decolonized > Eye]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/F2009/9780816653188.big.gif> > > > > <https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780816653195&PRESS=minnesota>$25.00 > paper > ISBN: 978-0-8166-5319-5 > > $75.00 cloth > ISBN: 978-0-8166-5318-8 > > > > > Filipino American artists map and contest the United States’ amnesia about > its colonization of the Philippines > > From the late 1980s to the present, artists of Filipino descent in the > United States have produced a challenging and creative movement. In *The > Decolonized Eye, *Sarita Echavez See shows how these artists have engaged > with the complex aftermath of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines. > > > Focusing on artists working in New York and California, See examines the > overlapping artistic and aesthetic practices and concerns of filmmaker Angel > Shaw, painter Manuel Ocampo, installation artist Paul Pfeiffer, comedian Rex > Navarrete, performance artist Nicky Paraiso, and sculptor Reanne Estrada to > explain the reasons for their strangely shadowy presence in American culture > and scholarship. Offering an interpretation of their creations that accounts > for their queer, decolonizing strategies of camp, mimesis, and humor, See > reveals the conditions of possibility that constitute this contemporary > archive. > > > By analyzing art, performance, and visual culture, *The Decolonized Eye* > illuminates > the unexpected consequences of America’s amnesia over its imperial history. > > * > * > > *Sarita Echavez See* is associate professor of Asian/Pacific Islander > American studies at the University of Michigan. > > 232 pages | 25 b&w illustrations, 13 color plates | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 2009 > > *TABLE OF CONTENTS* > > Acknowledgments > > Introduction: Foreign in a Domestic Sense > > Part I. Staging the Sublime > 1. An Open Wound: Angel Shaw and Manuel Ocampo > 2. A Queer Horizon: Paul Pfeiffer’s Disintegrating Figure Studies > > Part II. Pilipinos Are Punny, Freud Is Filipino > 3. Why Filipinos Make Pun(s) of One Another: The* Sikolohiya*/Psychology > of Rex Navarrete’s Stand-up Comedy > 4. “He will not always say what you would have him say”: Loss and Aural > (Be)Longing in Nicky Paraiso’s* House/Boy* > > Conclusion: Reanne Estrada, Identity, and the Politics of Abstraction > > Notes > Bibliography > Index > > > *Suspended Apocalypse* > > *White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition* > > *Dylan Rodríguez** > * > > [image: Suspended > Apocalypse]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/F2009/9780816653508.big.gif> > > > > <https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780816653508&PRESS=minnesota>$25.00 > paper > ISBN: 978-0-8166-5350-8 > > $75.00 cloth > ISBN: 978-0-8166-5349-2 > > > > > Examines the Filipino American as a product of conquest, white supremacy, > and racial empire > > * > * > > *Suspended Apocalypse* is a rich and provocative meditation on the > emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from > historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan Rodríguez provides a > sophisticated analysis of the Filipino presence in the American imaginary. > Radically critiquing current conceptions of Filipino American identity, > community, and history, he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, > rooted in the early twentieth-century military, political, and cultural > subjugation of the Philippines by the United States. > > *Suspended Apocalypse* critically addresses what Rodríguez calls “Filipino > American communion,” interrogating redemptive and romantic notions of > Filipino migration and settlement in the United States in relation to larger > histories of race, colonial conquest, and white supremacy. Contemporary > popular and scholarly discussions of the Filipino American are, he asserts, > inseparable from their origins in the violent racist regimes of the United > States and its historical successor, liberal multiculturalism. > > > Rodríguez deftly contrasts the colonization of the Philippines with > present-day disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Mount Pinatubo to show > how the global subjection of Philippine, black, and indigenous peoples > create a linked history of genocide. But in these juxtapositions, Rodríguez > finds moments and spaces of radical opportunity. Engaging the violence and > disruption of the Filipino condition sets the stage, he argues, for the > possibility of a transformation of the political lens through which > contemporary empire might be analyzed, understood, and perhaps even > overcome. > > * > * > > *Dylan Rodríguez* is associate professor of ethnic studies at the > University of California, Riverside. He is the author of *Forced Passages: > Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison > Regime<http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/rodriguez_forced.html> > *(Minnesota, 2006). > > 256 pages | 5 b&w illustrations | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | December 2009 > > > > *American Tropics* > > *Articulating Filipino America* > > *Allan Punzalan Isaac* > * > * > > [image: American > Tropics]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/F2006/0816642745.big.gif> > > > $22.50 Paper > ISBN: 0-8166-4274-5 > ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4274-8 > > $60.00 Cloth > ISBN: 0-8166-4273-7 > ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4273-1 > > > > *Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies' 2006 Book Award in > the Cultural Studies* > > > How America’s image of the Philippines reflects the U.S. inability to see > its own imperialism. > > > In 1997, when the *New York Times* described Filipino American serial > killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing “to be everywhere and nowhere,” Allan > Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the > United States, symptomatic of American imperialism’s invisibility to itself. > In *American Tropics,* Isaac explores American fantasies about the > Philippines and other “unincorporated” parts of the U.S. nation that obscure > the contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies. > > > Isaac boldly examines the American empire’s images of the Philippines in > turn-of-the-century legal debates over Puerto Rico, Progressive-era popular > literature set in Latin American borderlands, and midcentury Hollywood > cinema staged in Hawai‘i and the Pacific islands. Isaac scrutinizes media > coverage of the Cunanan case, Boy Scout adventure novels, and Hollywood > films such as *The Real Glory* (1939) and *Blue Hawaii *(1961) to argue > that territorial sites of occupation are an important part of American > identity.* American Tropics* further reveals the imperial imagination’s > role in shaping national meaning in novels such as Carlos Bulosan’s *America > Is in the Heart *(1946) and Jessica Hagedorn’s *Dogeaters* (1990), > Filipino American novels forced to articulate the empire’s enfolded but > disavowed borders. > > > Tracing the American empire from the beginning of the twentieth century to > Philippine liberation and the U.S. civil rights movement, *American > Tropics* lays bare Filipino Americans’ unique form of belonging marked > indelibly by imperialism and at odds with U.S. racial politics and culture. > > > “Isaac is bold in his examination of America’s images of the Philippines > and Filipinos as depicted in law, media coverage, literature, and Hollywood > cinema.” —*Colonial Latin American Historical Review* > > > “Isaac commands the reader’s attention through his thoughtful, consistent, > and serious critique of hypocrisies and aporiae within empire, as well as by > his smart and engaging narrative. *American Tropics* is a noteworthy and > important text, one that will compel scholars to redraw the cartographies of > Filipino/American imaginaries.” —*Journal of American Ethnic History* > > * > * > > *Allan Punzalan Isaac* is assistant professor of English at Wesleyan > University. > > 256 pages | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2006 > Critical American Studies Series<http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/CAS.html> > > *TABLE OF CONTENTS* > > Acknowledgments > Introduction > 1. American Tropics > > Part I. An Imperial Grammar > 2. Disappearing Clauses: Reconstituting America in the Unincorporated > Territories > 3. Moral Sentences: Boy Scouts and Novel Encounters with Empire > 4. Imperial Romance: Framing Manifest Destiny in the Pacific > > Part II. Toward an American Postcolonial Syntax > 5. Reconstituting American Subjects: Proximate Masculinities > 6. Reconstituting American Predicates: Troping the American *Tour > d’Horison* > > Coda > Notes > Index > > > *Model-Minority Imperialism* > > *Victor Bascara* > * > * > > [image: Model-Minority > Imperialism]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/S06/0816645124.big.gif> > > > $22.50 Paper > ISBN: 0-8166-4512-4 > ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4512-1 > > $58.50 Cloth > ISBN: 0-8166-4511-6 > ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4511-4 > > > > Understanding the legacy of U.S. imperialism through Asian American > culture. > > At the beginning of the twentieth century, soon after the conclusion of the > Spanish-American War, the United States was an imperialistic nation, > maintaining (often with the assistance of military force) a far-flung and > growing empire. After a long period of collective national amnesia regarding > American colonialism, in the Philippines and elsewhere, scholars have > resurrected the power of “empire” as a way of revealing American history and > culture. > > > Focusing on the terms of Asian American assimilation and the rise of the > model-minority myth, Victor Bascara examines the resurgence of empire as a > tool for acknowledging—and understanding—the legacy of American imperialism. > > *Model-Minority Imperialism* links geopolitical dramas of > twentieth-century empire building with domestic controversies of U.S. racial > order by examining the cultural politics of Asian Americans as they are > revealed in fiction, film, and theatrical productions. Tracing U.S. economic > and political hegemony back to the beginning of the twentieth century > through works by Jessica Hagedorn, R. Zamora Linmark, and Sui Sin Far; > discourses of race, economics, and empire found in the speeches of William > McKinley and William Jennings Bryan; as well as L. Frank Baum’s *The > Wonderful Wizard of Oz* and other texts, Bascara’s innovative readings > uncover the repressed story of U.S. imperialism and unearth the demand that > the present empire reckon with its past. > > > Bascara deploys the analytical approaches of both postcolonial studies and > Asian American studies, two fields that developed in parallel but have only > begun to converge, to reveal how the vocabulary of empire reasserted itself > through some of the very people who inspired the U.S imperialist mission. > > “*Model-Minority Imperialism* is a complex, stimulating, and rich text > with a multitude of intriguing cases for scholars of Asian American studies, > ethnic studies, and American and global studies more generally.” —*MELUS* > > * > * > > *Victor Bascara* is assistant professor of English and Asian American > studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. > > 232 pages | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2006 > > *TABLE OF CONTENTS* > > Preface > Introduction: We Are Here Because You Were There > > 1. Unburdening Empire: The Cultural Politics of Asian American Difference > 2. An Ever-Emergent Empire: The Discourse of American Exceptionalism > 3. “The American Earth Was Like a Huge Heart”: Old Dreams and the New > Imperialism > 4. Uplifting Race, Reconstructing Empire > 5. “Everybody Wants To Be Farrah”: Absurd Histories and Historical > Absurdities Epilogue: Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden > > Notes > > > *Migrants for Export > > How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World > > Robyn Magalit Rodriguez* > > [image: Migrants for > Export]<http://www.upress.umn.edu/images/S10/9780816665280.big.gif> > > $22.50 paper > ISBN 978-0-8166-6528-0 > $67.50 cloth > ISBN 978-0-8166-6527-3 > > > > How the Philippines transformed itself into the world’s leading labor > brokerage state > > > Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, > with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred > countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president > Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of > state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million > Filipinos who live and work abroad.” > > Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government > transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which > actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work > abroad. Filipino men and women fill a range of jobs around the globe, > including domestic work, construction, and engineering, and they have even > worked in the Middle East to support U.S. military operations. At the same > time, the state redefines nationalism to normalize its citizens to migration > while fostering their ties to the Philippines. Those who leave the country > to work and send their wages to their families at home are treated as new > national heroes. > > > Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government’s migration > bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new > analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state > formation. > > > *Robyn Magalit Rodriguez *is assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers > University. > > > 208 pages | 24 b&w photos | 2 tables | March 2010 > > > --- > Philippine Expressions Bookshop > The Mail Order Bookshop dedicated to > Filipino Americans in search of their roots. > > 2114 Trudie Drive > Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-2006, USA > Tel and Fax (310) 514-9139 > ---- > > "Do not go where the path may lead, go > instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo > Emerson. > > We have blazed the trail in promoting Philippine books in America. > 2009 marks our 25th year of service to the Filipino American community. > Mabuhay. > ---- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Filipino Librarians" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<filipinolibrarians%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Filipino Librarians" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<filipinolibrarians%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. 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