HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Ethnic Conflict, Racialization, Border Control
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Race making and colonial violence"s in the us hist221 reading notes. Warfare that extended boundaries of civilisaion at the expense of barbarism and savagery, a progress of humanity. A war raionalized in racial terms before us public, where us soldiers came to understand filipino combatants and non-combatants in racial terms. Miller"s assumpion that race was essenial to the poliics and conduct of war: emphasize coningency of the process that racial ideologies took shape. Contested character of race during the war: prewar republic and war"s convenional phase, guerilla struggle. 1898, filipino elites engaged in struggle against spanish racism, an element of colonialism colliding interests, failed translaions, mutual suspicion, quesions of jurisdicion, boiled into animosity and conlict. Soldiers commonly characterized filipinos as a whole as ilthy, diseased, lazy. Recogniion in intervals between wars, us soldiers came to know filipinos individually: frequening concerts, homes. Republic sought recogniion of its sovereignty in civilizaional standing: border control a state measure.