American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico During U.S. ColonialismDuke University Press, 2008 M03 14 - 377 páginas When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic government at the political elite: the relatively small class of the wealthy, educated, and politically powerful within each colony. While they retained ultimate control for themselves, the Americans let the elite vote, hold local office, and formulate legislation in national assemblies. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an examination of how these efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a practical education in self-government played out on the ground in the early years of American colonial rule, from 1898 until 1912. It is the first systematic comparative analysis of these early exercises in American imperial power. The sociologist Julian Go unravels how American authorities used “culture” as both a tool and a target of rule, and how the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite received, creatively engaged, and sometimes silently subverted the Americans’ ostensibly benign intentions. Rather than finding that the attempt to transplant American-style democracy led to incommensurable “culture clashes,” Go assesses complex processes of cultural accommodation and transformation. By combining rich historical detail with broader theories of meaning, culture, and colonialism, he provides an innovative study of the hidden intersections of political power and cultural meaning-making in America’s earliest overseas empire. |
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... example , the modes and means of economic production during colonialism rather than the production of meaning . Other traditional studies have treated colonialism as primarily a matter of violence . Colonial regimes attained “ dominance ...
... example , has disclosed the cultural constructions of colonial subjects and the racialized knowledge that guided American occupation.16 Related studies by Reynaldo Ileto , Warwick Anderson , and Vicente Rafael have disclosed that ...
... example , elides the ways patron - clientelism can take on different forms and meanings and manifest as very different kinds of practices . Nor can the approach account for the elites ' initially similar and later divergent cultural ...
... example , have explained cultural identities by reference to colonial state policies or strategies of rule . Strategies such as " indirect rule " solidified certain norms and cultural meanings rather than others.42 As David Laitin ...
... example , treat the elite as colonial com- pradors whose actions can be explained by reference to the elites ' politico- economic interests.44 Parallel work on the Philippines similarly conceives of the Filipino elite as " oligarchs ...
Contenido
Tutelary Colonialism and Cultural Power | 25 |
Domesticating Tutelage in Puerto Rico | 55 |
Winning Hearts and Minds in the Philippines | 93 |
Beyond Cultural Reproduction | 131 |
Divergent Paths | 173 |
Structural Transformation in Puerto Rico | 211 |
Cultural Revaluation in the Philippines | 241 |
Returning to Culture | 273 |
Appendix | 295 |
Notes | 299 |
References | 343 |
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