| ID | 159799 |
| Title Proper | Imperial ambiguities |
| Other Title Information | the United States and Philippine Muslims |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Vartavarian, Mesrob |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines relations between American imperial personnel and indigenous Muslims in the southern Philippines from the colonial advent to the post-colonial present. American officials initially established imperial linkages with Muslims that bypassed emerging political arrangements in core Christian areas. In ruling different Filipinos disparately, Christian and non-Christian zones of the archipelago assumed separate developmental trajectories. Muslims were racialized and forcibly modernized, but stood apart as a peripheral minority. Although sub-national imperial connections were severed after 1913, Muslims retained a memory of a distinct relationship with the United States that benefited local interests and contained government violence when the Americans returned to fight a war on terror at the beginning of the 21st century. |
| `In' analytical Note | South East Asia Research Vol. 26, No.2; Jun 2018: p.132-146 |
| Journal Source | South East Asia Research 2018-06 26, 2 |
| Key Words | Violence ; Insurgency ; Muslims ; American Imperialism ; The Philippines |