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educational supplement for any college student or any student of life, Academic language make this a hard and slow read, but very worthwhile, Difficult language, yes, but very rewarding, E. San Juan's work provides an excellent model for Marxist intervention in Filipino diaspora studies, And yes, very sharp polemics to the multiculturalist/pluralist obsession of contemporary cultural studies As the largest contingent of Asian/Pacific Islanders in the United States today, Filipinos have been described as “invisible,” “forgotten,” marginal “others,” and, on the whole, inconsequential.
From Exile to Diaspora challenges these stereotypes, With the Philippines undergoing revolutionary transformation, the Filipino diasporaabout six million “overseas contract workers” scattered around the planetis radically configuring the Filipino presence and potential for change in the U.
S. Subsumed before in the category of immigrants, exiles, refugees, etc, Filipinos now claim a nationalitarian, uniquely political/ethical identity removed from panethnic racializing generalities, Filipinos in their singular diversity are reassessing their colonial past and engaging in projects of populardemocratic resistance of which this work is one to the transnational system of global commodification.
This book examines the received textbook dogmas about the Filipino community before World War II and after, It questions the claims about Filipino assimilation and acculturation, focusing on their encounter with “white supremacy” in various forms, Through analysis and interpretation of imaginative texts and other discursive practices, From Exile to Diaspora seeks to establish a new framework for charting Filipino agency within the constraints of late capitalism.
It seeks to open up for laypersons and students of U, S. social history the question of racial justice and equality, San Juan hopes this book will serve as a guide to understanding the nuances of Filipino selfidentification in the process of challenging the dominant politys claim to pluralist and multicultural heterogeneity.
Epifanio San Juan, Jr. is a Filipino cultural critic and public intellectual, His works span a broad spectrum of fields and disciplines, from cultural studies, comparative literary scholarship, ethnic and racial studies, postcolonial theory, semiotics to philosophical inquiries in historical materialism, San Juan applies a Gramscian approach and a critical Marxist optic on cultural events and texts in the Philippine historical process of national liberation, He is

also notable for being the first Filipino male intellectual to have engaged with feminist discourse in his Filipina Insurgency: Writing Against Patriarchy Giraffe Books,, In, San Juan received the Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center Epifanio San Juan, Jr, is a Filipino cultural critic and public intellectual, His works span a broad spectrum of fields and disciplines, from cultural studies, comparative literary scholarship, ethnic and racial studies, postcolonial theory, semiotics to philosophical inquiries in historical materialism, San Juan applies a Gramscian approach and a critical Marxist optic on cultural events and texts in the Philippine historical process of national liberation, He is also notable for being the first Filipino male intellectual to have engaged with feminist discourse in his "Filipina Insurgency: Writing Against Patriarchy" Giraffe Books,, In, San Juan received the Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines because of his contributions to Filipino and Filipino American Studies, sitelink.