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Allegiance and Identity: Race and Ethnicity in the Era of the Philippine-American War, 1898-1914

Cadusale, M. Carmella
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9845-9204
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1472243324

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2016, Master of Arts in History, Youngstown State University, Department of Humanities.
Filipino culture was founded through the amalgamation of many ethnic and cultural influences, such as centuries of Spanish colonization and the immigration of surrounding Asiatic groups as well as the long nineteenth century’s Race of Nations. However, the events of 1898 to 1914 brought a sense of national unity throughout the seven thousand islands that made the Philippine archipelago. The Philippine-American War followed by United States occupation, with the massive domestic support on the ideals of Manifest Destiny, introduced the notion of distinct racial ethnicities and cemented the birth of one national Philippine identity. The exploration on the Philippine American War and United States occupation resulted in distinguishing the three different analyses of identity each influenced by events from 1898 to 1914: 1) The identity of Filipinos through the eyes of U.S., an orientalist study of the “us” versus “them” heavily influenced by U.S. propaganda; 2) the identity of the Filipinos themselves—the Spanish American War introduced an awareness of Philippine national identity, and the Philippine American War cemented this idea; 3) associating with a national identity—emphasized in the papers of David P. Barrows, William Howard Taft’s Manila Superintendent of Schools. Barrows introduced U.S. citizens to the perception of Filipinos as “Negritos,” his own personal ethnographic study of possible African blood within all of the Filipino classes. Barrows’ patriotic loyalty to U.S. ideals of Manifest Destiny can be comparatively analyzed through the experiences of David Fagen, an African American soldier from Florida, and several of his fellow African American soldiers of the twenty-fourth regiment who defected from the United States military to join the ranks of Philippine Revolutionary leader, Emilio Aguinaldo.
L. Diane Barnes, PhD (Advisor)
David Simonelli, PhD (Committee Member)
Helene Sinnreich, PhD (Committee Member)
104 p.
African American Studies; African Americans; American History; American Studies; Asian American Studies; Asian Studies; Black History; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnic Studies; History
Philippine-American War; Imperialism; Nationality; Race; Ethnicity; David Fagen; Identity; Allegiance; Social Darwinism; Eugenics; African Americans; Military; Filipino; Transnationalism; Propaganda; Human Zoos

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  • Cadusale, M. C. (2016). Allegiance and Identity: Race and Ethnicity in the Era of the Philippine-American War, 1898-1914 [Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1472243324

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cadusale, M. Carmella. Allegiance and Identity: Race and Ethnicity in the Era of the Philippine-American War, 1898-1914. 2016. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1472243324.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cadusale, M. Carmella. "Allegiance and Identity: Race and Ethnicity in the Era of the Philippine-American War, 1898-1914." Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1472243324

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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