Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America - Softcover

De Leon, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1469676486 ISBN 13: 9781469676487

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023

Synopsis

From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist extraction. Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States’s Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing. From the emergence of Luzon’s eighteenth-century tobacco industry and the Hawaii Sugar Planters' Association’s documentation of workers to the movement of people and ideas across the Suez Canal and the stories of Filipino farmworkers in the American West, De Leon traces “the Filipino” as a racial category emerging from the labor, subjugation, archiving, and resistance of native people.

De Leon’s imaginatively constructed archive yields a sweeping history that promises to reshape our understanding of race making in the Pacific world.

About this title

About the Author

Adrian De Leon is a writer, public historian, and assistant professor of history at New York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1469676486
• ISBN 13: 9781469676487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296