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GEORGE BAYLON RADICS is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. After receiving his PhD in sociology from the National University of Singapore (NUS), he earned a juris doctor with a concentration in Asian law from the University of Washington and worked for the Supreme Court of Guam for two years. He is also a member of the New York Bar. His work involves the judicial system, notions of justice, human rights, minorities, and comparative legal studies, and his articles have been published in Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Journal of Human Rights, Current Sociology, and Philippine Sociological Review.
In Emotional Filipinos, George Baylon Radics brilliantly traces how political, economic, and—perhaps most importantly—emotional reverberations of American colonial rule continue to shape religious conflict in the Philippines today. Drawing on a rich mosaic of archival and ethnographic research, Radics shows that the racial logics of U.S. empire are not relics of the past, but rather enduring frameworks of power that continue to shape social relations and produce devastating consequences generations after colonial rule has formally ended. A necessary book, especially in a moment in which political leaders in both the United States and the Philippines are hellbent on trying to erase history and truth. -- Anthony Christian Ocampo * author of The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race * Emotional Filipinos is an impressive interdisciplinary study that locates the ongoing conflict of Muslim and Christian Filipinos to the emotionality attached to conceptions of race imported during the American colonial period that endured into the establishment of the Philippines as an independent nation. Radics also offers a methodology for understanding political projects and movements through an analysis of emotions within their social and cultural contexts. -- Faye Caronan * author of Legitimizing Empire: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique * Emotional Filipinos provides powerful analysis for post-colonial conflicts in the Philippines, stressing 'colonial conceptions of race' and 'benevolent assimilation' out of Manifest Destiny policies. In Muslim-Christian conflict, strong case studies of the Moro and peoples from Mindanao illustrate problems of political extremism, anti-Western sentiment, separatism, and support for authoritarianism understand Duterte’s violent suppression campaigns and conversely anti-imperialism liberation movements. -- James V. Fenelon * professor of sociology and director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies at California State University, San Bernardino *
