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Empire’s Eyes: Colonial Stereographs of the Philippines
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Queer Horizons
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Encounters
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Talking Bodies
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RaceCraft
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Queer Sites and Sounds
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Hidden
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Food Worlds
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Sea, Land, Air: Migration and Labor
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Storm: A Typhoon Haiyan Recovery Project
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Archive

The "American imperial photography complex" is an archive that "shaped events and ideas" associated with U.S. empire in the Philippines. — Nerissa Balce

40 works
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Care work

As the ambiguity of “carework” suggests, Filipinos care for the physical well-being of their employers and also those employers’ emotional and psychic lives.

19 works
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Citizenship and belonging

“Citizenship is not just a matter of formal legal status; it is a matter of belonging...” ---Evelyn Nakano Glenn

41 works
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Colonial and imperial legacies

At a nexus of colonialism and neocolonialism for five centuries, Filipinos confront the legacies of colonial and imperial engagement in their daily lives.

75 works
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Crossing borders

"Filipinos ... did not necessarily move through borders, but rather, borders continually enfolded them.” --- Allan Punzalan Isaac

65 works
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Digital cultures

How have digital and new media technologies created new social and creative possibilities that have transformed the lives of Filipinos and others around the world?

32 works
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Environment

"[Slow violence] is neither spectacular nor instantaneous [but plays out in] a host of other slowly unfolding environmental catastrophes." --- Rob Nixon

89 works
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Food ways

"Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are." -- Brillat-Savarin

60 works
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Genders and sexualities

“The bare brown bosoms ... were markers of savagery, colonial desire, and a justification for Western imperial rule.” --- Nerissa Balce

86 works
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Identities

Everywhere and nowhere, what makes Filipinos who and what they are?

60 works
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Indigeneity

"We had to find some way not only of retaining, but rediscovering, our culture." -- Joel Jacinto, Kayamanan ng Lahi performing arts group

7 works
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Laboring at home and abroad

A “labor brokerage state ... actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad.” --- Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

67 works
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Making cultures

"All foreign influences were not adopted outright, but adapted ... just as they were transformed in other areas of culture ..." - Doreen Fernandez, "Why Sinigang?"

22 works
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Memory and nostalgia

"Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims." --- Judith...

19 works
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Queer Lives

"Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing." --- José Esteban Muñoz

63 works
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Religion and spirituality

"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay." --- Chinua Achebe

2 works
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Transforming spaces

Filipinos transform, deliberately and accidentally, the spaces that they enter and leave, unsettling national imaginaries and material spaces.

24 works
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War and conflict

"The 1899 Philippine-American War is not the sort of topic the Filipino public likes to talk about." --- Reynaldo C. Ileto

11 works
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Empire’s Eyes: Colonial Stereographs of the PhilippinesStereographic PrintDimensions varyKeystone-Mast CollectionCourtesy of the UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at RiversidePhotographerCalifornia Museum of PhotographyArchiveColonial and imperial legaciesFilipino Hair Dresser a Tenement Scene PhilippinesIn the Heart of a Native Village, Typical of Life in the Tropics. Philippine Islands Saturday, January 1, 189800Wednesday, January 1, 1930 (All day)
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