“Lord Cromer’s Shadow”: Political Anglo-Saxonism and the Egyptian Protectorate as a Model in the American Philippines

Kirkwood, Patrick M.

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“I Am Already Annexed”: Ramon Reyes Lala and the Crafting of “Philippine” Advocacy for American Empire

Ventura¹

2020

J. gilded age prog. era

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AbstractThis article reconstructs the American career of the Manila-born author Ramon Reyes Lala. Lala became a naturalized United States citizen shortly before the War of 1898 garnered public interest in the history and geography of the Philippines. He capitalized on this interest by fashioning himself into an Oxford-educated nationalist exiled in the United States for his anti-Spanish activism, all the while hiding a South Asian background. Lala's spirited defense of American annexation and war earned him the political patronage of the Republican Party. Yet though Lala offered himself as a ‘model’ Philippine-American citizen, his patrons offered Lala as evidence of U.S. benevolence and Philippine civilization potential shorn of citizenship. His embodied contradictions, then, extended to his position as a producer of colonial knowledge, a racialized commodity, and a representative Filipino in the United States when many in the archipelago would not recognize him as such. Lala's advocacy for American Empire, I contend, reflected an understanding of nationality born of diasporic merchant communities, while his precarious success in the middle-class economy of print and public speaking depended on his deft maneuvering between modalities of power hardening in terms of race. His career speaks more broadly to the entwined and contradictory processes of commerce, race formation, and colonial knowledge production.

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“I Am Already Annexed”: Ramon Reyes Lala and the Crafting of “Philippine” Advocacy for American Empire

Ventura¹

2020

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Sexton²

2020

Crossing Empires

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This book originated in a desire to call out empire, which has all too often slunk out of view as nation centered histories have opened up to the world. The na tionalist fervor of recent years has only underscored the value of both the trans and the imperial approaches brought together in this volume. In such times, it is worth recalling that no polity has ever gone it alone, whether rising or declining in might, and that onlyus nationalism has a long history of entwinement with imperialist impulses. Times of unraveling likewise make us take heed of the raveling, reminding us that global connections have never been inevitable, that our own global moment is the contingent product of high stakes strug gles over power. The fabric of our times has been knit together over millennia, unevenly, with plenty of dropped stitches and new threads. Some of the strands may have torn over time, but we are still enmeshed in the residual filaments of the past. One such filament, heralded with great acclaim in its day, was the first trans atlantic cable. Laid from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1858, this cable enabled electrical impulses to be sent via a copper wire from one shore of the Atlantic to the other. Policymakers at the time saw this and subsequent cables as stra tegically valuable technologies and as conduits for diplomatic dispatches. Recognizing the usefulness of cables for state purposes, officials helped negoti ate cable arrangements and offered subsidies to cable firms. 1 Cable commu nications affected international relations by reducing the likelihood of major battles being fought after the declaration of peace and reducing the autonomy granted by foreign offices to their diplomats. They also accelerated the pace of

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Fur Sealing and Unsettled Sovereignties

Soluri¹

2020

Crossing Empires

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“Lord Cromer’s Shadow”: Political Anglo-Saxonism and the Egyptian Protectorate as a Model in the American Philippines

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

“I Am Already Annexed”: Ramon Reyes Lala and the Crafting of “Philippine” Advocacy for American Empire

“I Am Already Annexed”: Ramon Reyes Lala and the Crafting of “Philippine” Advocacy for American Empire

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Fur Sealing and Unsettled Sovereignties

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