Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
by
Paul A. Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies...