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Images of Filipino Racialization in the Anthropological Laboratories of the American Empire: The Case of Daniel Folkmar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Oscar V. Campomanes
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In his now classic essay of race discourse analysis, “race under representation,” David Lloyd observes that “the discourse of race … undergoes a crucial shift in the late eighteenth century from a system of arbitrary marks to the ascription of natural signs” (69). The consequent fetishistic obsession with phenotype and somatology holds hegemonic sway over discourses of racial difference from that moment up to the early 1900s and the 1920s, when anthropological relativism and the cultural pluralism of Horace Kallen and Robert Park (of the Chicago school) eclipse nineteenth-century biological racism, at least in the United States.

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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 5: Special Topic Comparative Racialization , October 2008 , pp. 1692 - 1699
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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