Destiny Has Thrown the Negro and the Filipino Under the Tutelage of America”

Race and Curriculum in the Age of Empire

Bibliographic Data

ID9309853
AuthorsRoland Sintos Coloma (0000-0003-0375-517X, University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume39
Issue4
Pages495-519
Publication date2009-08-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurriculum Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0362-6784 • E-ISSN: 1467-873X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-873x.2009.00454.x
OpenAlexW2128721880
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited42

The article brings together the fields of curriculum studies, history of education, and ethnic studies to chart a transnational history of race, empire, and curriculum. Drawing from a larger study on the history of education in the Philippines under U.S. rule in the early 1900s, it argues that race played a pivotal role in the discursive construction of Filipino/as and that the schooling for African Americans in the U.S. South served as the prevailing template for colonial pedagogy in the archipelago. It employs Michel Foucault’s concept of archaeology to trace the racial grammar in popular and official representations, especially in the depiction of colonized Filipino/as as racially Black, and to illustrate its material effects on educational policy and curriculum. The tension between academic and manual-industrial instruction became a site of convergence for Filipino/as and African Americans, with decided implications for the lived trajectories in stratified racialized and colonized communities

Ancient history · Colonialism · Curriculum · Destiny (ISS module · Empire · Manifest destiny · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society

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