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Educating the empire : American teachers and contested colonization in the Philippines

Title
Educating the empire : American teachers and contested colonization in the Philippines / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, University of Alabama.
Author
Steinbock-Pratt, Sarah, 1982-
Publication
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
xii, 327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
This book examines how education contributed to the creation of US empire in the Philippines by focusing on American teachers and the Filipinos with whom they lived and worked. While education was located at the heart of the imperial project, used to justify empire, the implementation of schooling in the islands deviated from the expectations of the colonial state. American teachers at times upheld, adapted, circumvented, or entirely disregarded colonial policy. Despite the language of white masculinity that imbued imperial discourse, the appointment of white women and black men as teachers allowed them to claim roles and identities that transformed understandings of gender and race. Filipinos also used the American educational system to articulate their own understandings of empire. In this context, schools were a microcosm for the colonial state, with contestations over education often standing in for the colonial relationship itself.
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
Uniform Title
Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFE 20-1362
ISBN
  • 9781108473125
  • 1108473121
  • 9781108461009
  • 110846100X
LCCN
2018052004
OCLC
1083158464
Author
Steinbock-Pratt, Sarah, 1982- author.
Title
Educating the empire : American teachers and contested colonization in the Philippines / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, University of Alabama.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1898-1999
Research Call Number
JFE 20-1362
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