Nerissa S Balce
Biographic Data
| ID | 761146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nerissa S Balce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nerissa S |
| FAMILY NAME | Balce |
| SIGNATURE | BALCE N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
R ebecca T inio M c K enna . American Imperial Pastoral: The Architecture of U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines
In 1900, members of the Philippine Commission, who were representatives of the American colonial government in the Philippine colony, visited the mountains of Benguet Province and saw the verdant beauty of the plateau known as Baguio. One of its visitors was the zoologist Dean C. Worcester, who, as some American historians note, would become a rich and corrupt colonial official who owned land, cattle ranches, and gold mines in Baguio—and would ea…
Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899–1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the human body, including the moving camera, stereoscopes, and more efficient print technologies for mass m…
Laughter Against the state: On Humor, Postcolonial Satire, and Asian American Short Fiction
This article demonstrates how Filipino American hip-hop performance reflects a history of U.S. militarization within Filipino diasporic communities. I argue that Filipino American emcee Geologic’s biography and poetics exemplify the cultural politics emanating from militarized Filipino American communities. I contend that these cultural politics are represented in a “Filipino American hip-hop vernacular,” a set of popular cultural practices emerg…
Citizenship and the Immigrant Body
The question of citizenship and the manifold forms of violence experi enced by the remain important issues for feminist and race studies scholars. In a recent online essay critic Lisa Lowe (2008) observes that there is currently proposed legislation that seeks to criminalize more than twelve million undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States. In the same vein, the emotional and often racially charged 2009 debates regarding Ba…
The Filipina's Breast
American insecurity and radical Filipino community politics
American insecurity and radical Filipino community politics
The Filipina's Breast
Citizenship and the Immigrant Body
The question of citizenship and the manifold forms of violence experi enced by the remain important issues for feminist and race studies scholars. In a recent online essay critic Lisa Lowe (2008) observes that there is currently proposed legislation that seeks to criminalize more than twelve million undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States. In the same vein, the emotional and often racially charged 2009 debates regarding Ba…
Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899–1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the human body, including the moving camera, stereoscopes, and more efficient print technologies for mass m…
Laughter Against the state: On Humor, Postcolonial Satire, and Asian American Short Fiction
This article demonstrates how Filipino American hip-hop performance reflects a history of U.S. militarization within Filipino diasporic communities. I argue that Filipino American emcee Geologic’s biography and poetics exemplify the cultural politics emanating from militarized Filipino American communities. I contend that these cultural politics are represented in a “Filipino American hip-hop vernacular,” a set of popular cultural practices emerg…
R ebecca T inio M c K enna . American Imperial Pastoral: The Architecture of U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines
In 1900, members of the Philippine Commission, who were representatives of the American colonial government in the Philippine colony, visited the mountains of Benguet Province and saw the verdant beauty of the plateau known as Baguio. One of its visitors was the zoologist Dean C. Worcester, who, as some American historians note, would become a rich and corrupt colonial official who owned land, cattle ranches, and gold mines in Baguio—and would ea…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)