LESSON 14

QUESTION OF RACE

FILIPINO-AMERICAN WRITING

- Literary text that explore the personal

social, cultural and even political issues that
Filipino Americans confront as they experience
life in the United States.

The Fil-am writers can be classified in three

critical phases:

1.The pioneers - those who (sketch) a new

territoriality that recovers the colonized land
imaginatively.

2.The so-called Flips - those who wrote from an

alienation that is double-sided as they
(addressed) their historical absence in the
United States and remain implicated in the
historic invisibility of the nation that
permanently identifies them.
3.Political Expariates - the political exiles from
the Marshal Law Period

LIMINALITY
- is a metaphysical state of being neither here
nor there.

CONFIGURE

Laurel Fantauzzo
- a Filipino-Italian by
ethnicity, but was born in
the United States.

- the author of Under My Invisible Umbrella.

The Filipino People’s White Love

Benevolent assimilation
- A colonial project of the American centered
on treating Filipinos, not as slaves or subjects,
but as Brown brothers and sisters.
The Filipino-American as Perspective

* Experience to perspective
* Movement
- tangible and metaphysical
* Identity
The Fil-Am identity tells us identity is
never fix.