Filipinx American Critique: An Introduction 1 Rick Bonus and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. Section A: Reckoning Part I: Empire as Endless War 1. Empire: Turns and Returns 33 Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 2. Empire as the Rule of War and Fascism 42 Nerissa S. Balce 3. Empire: US States at the Intersection of Diaspora and Indigeneity 57 Dean Itsuji Saranillio 4. The Persistence of War through Migration 67 Cynthia Marasigan 5.

Liminal Services: Third Spaces of Being within the United States 83 JoAnna Poblete 6. "Genocide" and the Poetics of Alter-Being in the Obsolescence of the "Filipino American" 91 Dylan Rodríguez Part II: Labor and Knowledge/Power 7. Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire 103 Josen Masangkay Diaz 8. On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual 111 Victor Bascara 9. The Limits of "Immigration" Frameworks: Centering Empire in Analyzing Migration and the Diaspora 118 Roy B. Taggueg Jr. and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez 10. Including the Excluded: The "Chinese" in the Philippines and the Study of "Migration" in Filipinx American Studies 128 Richard T.

Chu 11. Labor and Carework 138 Anna Romina Guevarra 12. The Labor of History in Filipinx Historiography 148 Jody Blanco Section B: Reclamation Part III: Across Language, Sex-Gender, and Space-Time Geographies 13. Pag-uugat at Paglalayag (Roots and Journeys): Filipino Language Learning and Activism 165 Joi Barrios 14. In an Archipelago and Sea of Complexities: Contemporary Intersectional / Transpacific / Decolonial Queer and/or Trans Filipinx American Studies 174 Kale Bantigue Fajardo 15. Datíng as Affect in Filipinx Migration 185 Allan Punzalan Isaac 16. Gender: A Transpacific Feminist Approach to Filipinx Studies 192 Denise Cruz 17. The Contingencies of Kasarian 201 Robert Diaz Part IV: Critical Schooling and Justice in Other Words 18.

Filipinx Americans and Higher Education 211 Dina C. Maramba 19. Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models 221 Reuben B. Deleon 20. Third World Studies and the Living Archive of US-based Filipinx Activism 229 Michael Schulze-Oechtering 21. Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies 239 Jeffrey Santa Ana 22. Filipinx American Activism--and Why I Once Loved Manny Pacquiao 256 Karín Aguilar-San Juan 23. Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific 267 Kim Compoc Section C: Transformation Part V: Relationalities, Intimacies, and Entanglements 24.

Filipinxness: An Epochal Perspective 279 Anthony Bayani Rodriguez 25. A Tale of Two "X"s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies 284 Sony Coráñez Bolton 26. Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians 291 Angelica J. Allen 27. Why I Don''t (Really) Consider Myself a Filipinx: Complicating "Filipinxness" from a Katutubo Intervention 298 J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez 28. Repertoires on Other Stages 308 Theodore S.

Gonzalves Part VI: Recalcitrant Bodies, Unruly Vernaculars 29. Confronting Worldly Acts: Filipinx Performances and Their Elsewheres 323 Lucy MSP Burns 30. Aye Nako!: The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility 335 Alana J. Bock 31. Who Cares?: Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies 343 Edward Nadurata 32. Dalaga na!: Gender and Youth Studies Come of Age in Filipinx Studies 352 Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez 33. Unpacking Hiya: (Trans)national "Traits" and the (Un)making of Filipinxness 362 Martin F. Manalansan IV 34.

Language Run Amok 370 Sarita Echavez See Afterword 379 Gina Apostol Appendixes : Key Resources in Filipinx American Studies A. A Selection of Library Research Tools and Web Resources Related to Filipinx American Studies 385 Gerardo A. Colmenar B. Selected List of Scholarship on Filipinx American Studies 403 Edward Nadurata Acknowledgments 415 List of Contributors 419 Index 435.