Crip Colony - Mestizaje, Us Imperialism, Queer Politics of Disability in

Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Crip Colonial Critique: Reading Mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines  1
1. Benevolent Rehabilitation and the Colonial Bodymind: Filipinx American Studies as Disability Studies  33
2. Mad María Clara: The Queer Aesthetics of Mestizaje and Compulsory Able-Mindedness  67
3. Filipino Itineraries, Orientalizing Impairments: Chinese Foot-Binding and the Crip Coloniality of Travel Literature  99
4. A Colonial Model of Disability: Running Amok in the Mad Colonial Archive of the Philippines  131
Epilogue. A Song from Subic: Racial Disposability and the Intimacy of Cultural Translation  162
Notes  171
Bibliography  187
Index  197

About the author

Sony Coráñez Bolton is Assistant Professor of Spanish, American studies, and Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College.

Product details

• Authors: Sony Coranez Bolton, Sony Coráñez Bolton
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781478019565
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1956-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories