TALKMeet the Author――Tessa Winkelmann, Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946.

OUTLINE

This event welcomes Tessa Winkelmann as the guest and discusses her book, Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946 (Cornell University Press, 2022) . Drawing on a transnational approach with a multilingual array of primary sources, Winkelman examines a wide range of interracial sexual relationships -from the casual and economical to the formal and long term- between Americans and Filipinos in the overseas colony from 1898 to formal independence in 1946. She argues that sexual relationships enabled US authorities to police white and nonwhite bodies alike, define racial and national boundaries, and solidify colonial rule throughout the archipelago. While the intercourse occasionally offered local populations opportunities to challenge imperialism, it was at a high cost to the most vulnerable and was foundational not only to the colonisation of the Philippines but also to the more extended, uneven history between the two nations. The dangerous ideas about sexuality and Filipina women created and shaped by US imperialists of the early twentieth century remain at the core of contemporary American notions of the island nation and, indeed, of Asian and Asian American women more broadly.

Online link (Zoom)
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Hosted by MICCS in cooperation with Research Unit 13, Institute for Study of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doshisha University.

BIO

Tessa Winkelmann is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her B.A. at the University of California, Irvine(2005), her M.A. at San Francisco State University (2008), and her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015). Her research interests include the U.S. in the world, empires and imperialism, ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies.
(cited from the personal web page of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

CONTACT

Satoshi MIZUTANI (Doshisha University, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies)
mizutanis0606@gmail.com