Campaigns of knowledge : U.S. pedagogies of colonialism and occupation in the Philippines and Japan

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Campaigns of knowledge : U.S. pedagogies of colonialism and occupation in the Philippines and Japan

Malini Johar Schueller

(Asian American history and culture series)

Temple University Press, 2019

  • : pbk

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Summary: "This book examines colonial education as a technology of U.S. power in the Philippines and Japan, tracking discourses on U.S. tutelage in policy, textbooks, short stories, novels, films, and essays by writers in the Philippines, Japan, and the diaspora"--Provided by publisher

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The creation of a new school system in the Philippines in 1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior, following its politics of violence with benevolent recuperation. The pedagogy of recovery-in which schooling was central and natives were forced to accept empire through education-might have shown how Americans could be good occupiers, but it also created projects of Orientalist racial management: Filipinos had to be educated and civilized, while the Japanese had to be reeducated and "de-civilized." In Campaigns of Knowledge, Malini Schueller contrapuntally reads state-sanctioned proclamations, educational agendas, and school textbooks alongside political cartoons, novels, short stories, and films to demonstrate how the U.S. tutelary project was rerouted, appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted. In doing so, she highlights how schooling was conceived as a process of subjectification, creating particular modes of thought, behaviors, aspirations, and desires that would render the natives docile subjects amenable to American-style colonialism in the Philippines and occupation in Japan.

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