The Heartland of U.S. Empire

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ISBN: 9781439927670

Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest

Thomas Xavier Sarmiento

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English

Temple University Press,U.S.
31 March 2026

History of the Americas; Gender studies, gender groups; Ethnic studies; Black & Asian studies; Local history

Series: Asian American History & Cultu

Examining Filipinx cultural representations in the Midwest since the early twentieth century, Thomas Sarmiento shrewdly considers the impact of American exceptionalism and U.S. imperialism in a region where white, middle class, heterosexual, and Christian is the norm. The Heartland of U.S. Empire offers a cogent analysis of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and its infamous Philippine Exhibit alongside minor museum displays and archives of Midwesterners in the Philippines. Sarmiento also considers the ""exile literature"" of Filipino/American writer Bienvenido Santos as well as the TV shows Glee and Superstore, which provide mainstream visibility of the queer Filipinx Midwest.

He employs a queer, decolonial Filipinx methodology that traces how narratives of America's heartland position Filipinxs in the region as nonnormative due to their racial, gender, sexual, and national statuses. The Heartland of U.S. Empire locates queer Filipinxs in the geographic center of the nation and at the center of cultural narratives, thereby mapping alternative images of diasporic Filipinx identity and experience alongside U.S. regional and national identities, histories, and realities.

In the series Asian American History and Culture

By: Thomas Xavier Sarmiento
Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9781439927670
ISBN 10: 1439927677
Series: Asian American History & Cultu
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 31 March 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Xavier Sarmiento is an award-winning Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University.