Author: Ray L. Burdeos
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434361411
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Proceso James Paligutan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781267729941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This work examines a unique migratory movement of Filipinos to America: Filipino nationals recruited into the United States Navy and Coast Guard during the post-World War II era until the early 1970s. Existing scholarly work in Filipino American history has largely focused upon prewar agricultural laborers in the West as well as post-1965 Filipino immigrants, most notably domestic workers and healthcare professionals. This study of the immigration of Filipino sailors, a migratory group that heretofore lacks a definitive scholarly analysis, aims not only to contribute to the current academic discourse of Filipino American historical studies; it also seeks to establish their historical place within the larger narrative of U.S. immigration, ethnic, and labor history. I argue that the analysis of their experiences reveals a depiction of American foreign policy, society, and culture at variance with other approaches that conform to more exceptionalist interpretations of U.S. history. The recruitment of Filipino nationals into the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard was seen as a solution to a recurrent labor problem stemming from the Navy's traditional use of minorities to fulfill duties as "stewards" for naval officers. Stewardship in the Navy and Coast Guard was officially described as domestic work: serving meals, cleaning living quarters, washing and ironing clothes, and other menial tasks. Unofficially, however, it can be aptly described as servitude towards Navy officers, since a variety of tasks expected of stewards extended beyond this official job description. Previous to the time period of this study, African Americans sailors, due to discriminatory naval policies, dominated the occupational rating of officers' steward. Yet with African American protest of social, political, and economic apartheid during the civil rights era, the U.S. Navy looked to its former colony - the Philippines - to replenish its supply of servant labor. By the mid-1950s, up to two thousand Filipinos were recruited per year to serve as stewards. As a racialized postcolonial labor force in the U.S. military, the overwhelming majority of Filipino stewards were prohibited from entering other occupations other than stewardship ostensibly due to issues pertaining to citizenship; they were subject to widespread discrimination, racism, and exploitation in the Navy and Coast Guard, as well as within larger U.S. society. Yet as will be shown in this study, such Filipino sailors were able to forge a complex culture of resistance, whether manifested through non-confrontational acts of defiance, protest through official channels, and even labor stoppage. The cumulative effect of these actions, I argue, resulted in the reversal of naval policy regarding its tradition-bound practice of stewardship, as Filipino protest percolated upward to the upper levels of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard's chain of command. Through the use of oral interviews and archival evidence, it will be shown that Filipino agency was an instrumental factor in the termination of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard's practice of racialized domestic labor by the early 1970s.

Author: John Darrell Sherwood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523488766
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"At the height of the U.S. Navy's involvement in the Vietnam War, the Navy's coastal and riverine forces included more than 30,000 Sailors and over 350 patrol vessels ranging in size from riverboats to destroyers. These forces developed the most extensive maritime blockade in modern naval history and fought pitched battles against Viet Cong units in the Mekong Delta and elsewhere. War in the Shallows explores the operations of the Navy's three inshore task forces from 1965 to 1968. It also delves into other themes such as basing, technology, tactics, and command and control. Finally, using oral history interviews, it reconstructs deckplate life in South Vietnam, focusing in particular on combat waged by ordinary Sailors. Vietnam was the bloodiest war in recent naval history and War in the Shallows strives above all else to provide insight into the men who fought it and honor their service and sacrifice"--Publisher description

Author: P. James Paligutan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053605
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military’s elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation. Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is the untold story of how Filipino servicepersons overcame tradition and hierarchy in their quest for dignity.

Author: Sofya Aptekar
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262373653
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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An in-depth and troubling look at a little-known group of immigrants—non-citizen soldiers who enlist in the US military. While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time military recruits are noncitizens. Their reasons for enlisting are myriad, but many are motivated by the hope of gaining citizenship in return for their service. In Green Card Soldier, Sofya Aptekar talks to more than seventy noncitizen soldiers from twenty-three countries, including some who were displaced by conflict after the US military entered their homeland. She identifies a disturbing pattern: the US military’s intervention in foreign countries drives migration, which in turn supplies the military with a cheap and desperate labor pool—thereby perpetuating the cycle. As Aptekar discovers, serving in the US military is no guarantee against deportation, and yet the promise of citizenship and the threat of deportation are the carrot and stick used to discipline noncitizen soldiers. Viewed at various times as security threats and members of a model minority, immigrant soldiers sometimes face intense discrimination from their native-born colleagues and superiors. Their stories—stitched through with colonial legacies, white supremacy, exploitation, and patriarchy—show how the tensions between deservingness and suspicion shape their enlistment, service, and identities. Giving voice to this little-heard group of immigrants, Green Card Soldier shines a cold light on the complex workings of US empire, globalized militarism, and citizenship.

Author: Christopher Capozzola
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541618262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421

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A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfare Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces. In Bound by War, historian Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos. As the US military expanded in Asia, American forces confronted their Pacific rivals from Philippine bases. And from the colonial-era Philippine Scouts to post-9/11 contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, Filipinos were crucial partners in the exercise of US power. Their service reshaped Philippine society and politics and brought thousands of Filipinos to America. Telling the epic story of a century of conflict and migration, Bound by War is a fresh, definitive portrait of this uneven partnership and the two nations it transformed.

Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stewards
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199996008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537

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Food matters, not only as a subject of study in its own right, but also as a medium for conveying critical messages about capitalism, the environment, and social inequality to diverse audiences. Recent scholarship on the subject draws from both a pathbreaking body of secondary literature and an inexhaustible wealth of primary sources--from ancient Chinese philosophical tracts to McDonald's menus--contributing new perspectives to the historical study of food, culture, and society, and challenging the limits of history itself. The Oxford Handbook of Food History places existing works in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological, and geographic boundaries while also suggesting new routes for future research. The twenty-seven essays in this book are organized into five sections: historiography, disciplinary approaches, production, circulation, and consumption of food. The first two sections examine the foundations of food history, not only in relation to key developments in the discipline of history itself--such as the French Annales school and the cultural turn--but also in anthropology, sociology, geography, pedagogy, and the emerging Critical Nutrition Studies. The following three sections sketch various trajectories of food as it travels from farm to table, factory to eatery, nature to society. Each section balances material, cultural, and intellectual concerns, whether juxtaposing questions of agriculture and the environment with the notion of cookbooks as historical documents; early human migrations with modern culinary tourism; or religious customs with social activism. In its vast, interdisciplinary scope, this handbook brings students and scholars an authoritative guide to a field with fresh insights into one of the most fundamental human concerns.

Author: Seth Schindler
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529220785
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure. Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US-China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters demonstrate that many countries navigate the global infrastructure boom by articulating novel spatial objectives and implementing political and economic reforms. By focusing on people and places worldwide, this book broadens perspectives on the US-China rivalry beyond bipolarity. It is an essential guide to 21st century politics.

Author: Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1071828975
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1145

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Filipino Americans are one of the three largest Asian American groups in the United States and the second largest immigrant population in the country. Yet within the field of Asian American Studies, Filipino American history and culture have received comparatively less attention than have other ethnic groups. Over the past twenty years, however, Filipino American scholars across various disciplines have published numerous books and research articles, as a way of addressing their unique concerns and experiences as an ethnic group. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, the first on the topic of Filipino American Studies, offers a comprehensive survey of an emerging field, focusing on the Filipino diaspora in the United States as well as highlighting issues facing immigrant groups in general. It covers a broad range of topics and disciplines including activism and education, arts and humanities, health, history and historical figures, immigration, psychology, regional trends, and sociology and social issues.