HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Carlos Bulosan, Samuel Gompers
15 May 2017
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1763: filipino seamen jumped ship in new orleans where they established the first permanent filipino settlements on the gulf coast (cid:1445)manilamen(cid:1446) There are descendants in this region, 8 generations. Human exhibitions (zoo) commonplace to show what the us has colonized, popular in europe as well. St. louis world"s fair 1904 (louisiana purchase exposition) Mckinley wanted to transfer the idea of imperialism, arguing that the philippines would protect the us. Justifying us actions under manifest destiny of taking over the philippines. Ethnographic voyeurism presented when europeans went to philippines to view the. Presented as primitive because they did not wear as much clothes. Many of the exhibitions showed what resources the us/europeans can exploit. Will make us wealthy if we colonize them. Wanted to try to present a certain perspective of filipinos. Bringing them into spain, educate them, and ship them back to the philippines. Many of them were women, spoke english.
