{"product_id":"9780820375441","title":"Emotional Filipinos : The American Myth of the \"Lazy Native\" and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines by George Baylon Radics","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 15\/04\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image-one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of race and modernity left a profound imprint on the nation. More recently, we have seen a menacing rise of Islamic \"terrorism,\" political polarization, populism, xenophobia, and isolationism. Conventional wisdom has attributed this rise to a \"failed state\" or economic insecurity and cultural backlash. In this book, however, George Radics explains this forgotten part of U.S. history with emotions as a driving force behind social action. The Philippines is currently experiencing the longest-running Muslim-Christian conflict in the modern world and an increasingly anti-Western populist government. By unpacking the role of emotions from the American colonial period to the present, Emotional Filipinos blurs the line between American colonizer and Muslim-Filipino \"terrorist,\" highlighting the lasting effects of America's footprint in Southeast Asia. Radics humanizes this fraught history and reveals unexplored connections between past and present. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420511711605,"sku":"9780820375441","price":124.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780820375441","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}