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Book SynopsisSony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire.
Trade Review“Sony Corañez Bolton’s Crip Colony is a theoretically sophisticated contribution to the current surge in Filipinx American studies scholarship.”
-- Martin Joseph Ponce * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Crip Colonial Critique: Reading Mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines 1
1. Benevolent Rehabilitation and the Colonial Bodymind: Filipinx American Studies as Disability Studies 33
2. Mad María Clara: The Queer Aesthetics of Mestizaje and Compulsory Able-Mindedness 67
3. Filipino Itineraries, Orientalizing Impairments: Chinese Foot-Binding and the Crip Coloniality of Travel Literature 99
4. A Colonial Model of Disability: Running Amok in the Mad Colonial Archive of the Philippines 131
Epilogue. A Song from Subic: Racial Disposability and the Intimacy of Cultural Translation 162
Notes 171
Bibliography 187
Index 197
