White Love and Other Events in Filipino History

Examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Treats, in a condensed and concise manner, clusters of historical detail and reflections that do not easily fit into a larger whole. Offers a view of nationalism as an unstable production, revealing how, under what circumstances, and with what effects the concept of the nation has been produced and deployed in the Philippines.