SIGNED / PERSONALIZED COPIES To request a personalized copy, add your personalization request to the order notes. Please allow 5-7 business days for personalized requests. Bundok : A Hinterland History of Filipino America Adrian De Leon9781469676487Trade PaperbackSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander StudiesPolitical Science / Labor & Industrial Relations / Pinoy Pride / AAPI How labor, empire, and Indigenous politics formed the modern racial category of "Filipino"From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist extraction. Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States's Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing. From the emergence of Luzon's eighteenth-century tobacco industry and the Hawaii Sugar Planters' Association's documentation of workers to the movement of people and ideas across the Suez Canal and the stories of Filipino farmworkers in the American West, De Leon traces "the Filipino" as a racial category emerging from the labor, subjugation, archiving, and resistance of native people.
