Illicit Labor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4053951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (0000-0002-8405-9274, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2015 |
| Issue | 123 |
| Pages | 87-114 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-3088168 |
| OpenAlex | W2204261277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay examines a brief affair between General Douglas MacArthur and a mixed-race Filipina vaudeville actress named Isabel Rosario Cooper. It focuses on Cooper's little-documented and underexamined life as a way to understand how the intimate politics of the bedroom overlapped with the libidinal economies of the cosmopolitan Philippine entertainment industry, American military occupation, and broader geopolitical relations of imperial desire. Cooper and MacArthur's liaison was constitutive of as well as constituted by the larger international "romance" between the United States and the Philippines that MacArthur himself oversaw in the early and middle part of the twentieth century. Going beyond the salacious details of an illicit love affair, this study seeks to illuminate how intimacy made up a type of imperial labor writ small, which served to underpin the project of US imperialism as crucially as colonial administration or military occupation
Art · Geopolitics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Writ · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |