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By gold_chapter - Wed, 30 May 2007 03:17:14 GMT
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http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0199n64c/ (book on-line)
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Not everyone in the "Philippine Village" played their subservient roles completely, they also used their time there to collect weapons. A few years after, the U.S. military would begin using the infamous Colt .45 in Mindanao under John "Black Jack" Pershing.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1904 St. Louis World's Fair [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Thomas M. McKenna[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Chapter 5, America's Moros[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In his 1983 work on early American colonial rule in the Muslim Philippines, Peter Gowing cites a passage from a 1909 report to General Tasker Bliss, the second governor of the "Moro Province": "I find that the Moros who attended the St. Louis Exposition bought and brought in, apparently without question, no less than fifty rifles and revolvers of the very latest models... [M]any of them have changed hands, thus making it a very profitable business for the Moros who were lucky enough to have visited the United States" (Lt. Jesse Gaston to Bliss, January 8, 1909, cited in Gowing 1983, 177).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]While not remarked upon by Gowing, this short passage says much about the responses of Philippine Muslims to the early American occupation of the southern Philippines. It refers to the one hundred "Moros" (certainly many datus among them) who, with representatives of other subject groups of the American-held Philippines (one thousand individuals in all), were brought to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and placed on exhibit.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The report complains of the behavior of the Moros, who apparently did not content themselves with their assigned roles in a "living ethnological display" but also spent their time shopping for the most sophisticated firearms that American industry had to offer (Rydell 1984, 162). It is tempting to imagine them making their way from their "ethnological village" in the "Philippine Reservation" to the Palace of Manufactures, there to regard those gleaming, high-calibered benefits of Western technological progress (1984, 167).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]This depiction of subjugated Philippine Muslims as both objects of colonial intentions (quite literally so in this instance) and strategizing subjects is characteristic of political relations in Cotabato throughout the American period, especially those between Muslim notables and colonial agents.[/FONT]
" At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, the largest 'living exhibit' was the Philippine Reservation. This village spanned 47 acres, displaying over 1,100 so-called primitive savages, Filipinos from different parts of the Philippines: the Igorots, Moros, Negritos, and their various sub-tribes. In 1904, few Americans had ever seen a Filipino. The display at St. Louis was very influential in establishing racial stereotypes that Filipinos and Filipino Americans had to endure for many decades."
http://www.smccd.net/accounts/erpelol/1904_stlouis.html
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Marlon E. Fuentes' BONTOC EULOGY is a haunting, personal exploration into the filmmaker's complex relationship with his Filipino heritage as explored through the almost unbelievable story of the 1100 Filipino tribal natives brought to the U.S. to be a "living exhibit" at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. For those who associate the famous fair with Judy Garland, clanging trolleys, and creampuff victoriana, BONTOC EULOGY offers a disturbing look at the cultural arrogance that went hand-in-hand with the Fair's glorification of progress. The Fair was the site of the world's largest ever "ethnological display rack," in which hundreds of so-called primitive and savage men and women from all over the globe were exhibited in contrast to the achievements of Western civilization.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Bontoc.html
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By gold_chapter - Wed, 30 May 2007 03:17:14 GMT
Originally Posted at: FMATalk
====================
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0199n64c/ (book on-line)
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Not everyone in the "Philippine Village" played their subservient roles completely, they also used their time there to collect weapons. A few years after, the U.S. military would begin using the infamous Colt .45 in Mindanao under John "Black Jack" Pershing.[/FONT]
Quote:
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1904 St. Louis World's Fair [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Thomas M. McKenna[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Chapter 5, America's Moros[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In his 1983 work on early American colonial rule in the Muslim Philippines, Peter Gowing cites a passage from a 1909 report to General Tasker Bliss, the second governor of the "Moro Province": "I find that the Moros who attended the St. Louis Exposition bought and brought in, apparently without question, no less than fifty rifles and revolvers of the very latest models... [M]any of them have changed hands, thus making it a very profitable business for the Moros who were lucky enough to have visited the United States" (Lt. Jesse Gaston to Bliss, January 8, 1909, cited in Gowing 1983, 177).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]While not remarked upon by Gowing, this short passage says much about the responses of Philippine Muslims to the early American occupation of the southern Philippines. It refers to the one hundred "Moros" (certainly many datus among them) who, with representatives of other subject groups of the American-held Philippines (one thousand individuals in all), were brought to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and placed on exhibit.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The report complains of the behavior of the Moros, who apparently did not content themselves with their assigned roles in a "living ethnological display" but also spent their time shopping for the most sophisticated firearms that American industry had to offer (Rydell 1984, 162). It is tempting to imagine them making their way from their "ethnological village" in the "Philippine Reservation" to the Palace of Manufactures, there to regard those gleaming, high-calibered benefits of Western technological progress (1984, 167).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]This depiction of subjugated Philippine Muslims as both objects of colonial intentions (quite literally so in this instance) and strategizing subjects is characteristic of political relations in Cotabato throughout the American period, especially those between Muslim notables and colonial agents.[/FONT]
" At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, the largest 'living exhibit' was the Philippine Reservation. This village spanned 47 acres, displaying over 1,100 so-called primitive savages, Filipinos from different parts of the Philippines: the Igorots, Moros, Negritos, and their various sub-tribes. In 1904, few Americans had ever seen a Filipino. The display at St. Louis was very influential in establishing racial stereotypes that Filipinos and Filipino Americans had to endure for many decades."
http://www.smccd.net/accounts/erpelol/1904_stlouis.html
Quote:
Marlon E. Fuentes' BONTOC EULOGY is a haunting, personal exploration into the filmmaker's complex relationship with his Filipino heritage as explored through the almost unbelievable story of the 1100 Filipino tribal natives brought to the U.S. to be a "living exhibit" at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. For those who associate the famous fair with Judy Garland, clanging trolleys, and creampuff victoriana, BONTOC EULOGY offers a disturbing look at the cultural arrogance that went hand-in-hand with the Fair's glorification of progress. The Fair was the site of the world's largest ever "ethnological display rack," in which hundreds of so-called primitive and savage men and women from all over the globe were exhibited in contrast to the achievements of Western civilization.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Bontoc.html
Read More...
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