Description
Book SynopsisIn Dangerous Intercourse, Tessa Winkelmann examines interracial social and sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos in the early twentieth century via a wide range of relationshipsfrom the casual and economic to the formal and long term. Winkelmann argues that such intercourse was foundational not only to the colonization of the Philippines but also to the longer, uneven history between the two nations. Although some relationships between Filipinos and Americans served as demonstrations of US benevolence, too-close sexual relations also threatened social hierarchies and the so-called civilizing mission. For the Filipino, Indigenous, Moro, Chinese, and other local populations, intercourse offered opportunities to negotiate and challenge empire, though these opportunities often came at a high cost for those most vulnerable.
Drawing on a multilingual array of primary sources, Dangerous Intercourse highlights that sexual relationships enabl
Table of Contents
Introduction: Dangerous Intercourse: Romantic Pretense and Colonial Violence
1. Marshaling Interracial Intercourse during the Philippine-American War, 1898-1902
2. Colonial "Frontiers": Empire Building and Intercourse in the Northern and Southern Philippines
3. Colonial Society and Policing Dangerous Intercourse, 1898-1907
4. The Trials of Intercourse: Criminality and Illegitimacy in the Colonial Courts
5. Depicting Dangerous Intercourse: Sam and Maganda on the Pages of Empire
6. Making Mestizos: Filipino American Mixed-Race Children and Discourses of Belonging, 1898 and Beyond
Conclusion: "My Filipino Baby," Absolution, and Aftermath of an Imperial Romance
