Reviewed by Matthew M. Briones | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America. By Allan Punzalan Isaac. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxx + 205 pp. Notes and index. $20.00 (paper).

An ambitious attempt to reconstitute the willful amnesia of the Philippines from the U.S. imagination, Allan Punzalan Isaac's American Tropics is a welcome and original contribution to the recent surge of scholarship on Filipinos and Filipino Americans and their wide-ranging coordinates within the U.S. imperial cosmology. Through the interdisciplinary study of law, literature (from the rhetorically troubling Boy Scouts novels of 1911 to the brilliantly cacophonous Dogeaters [1990] of Jessica Hagedorn), and films and musicals rhapsodizing about an American Pacific, Isaac navigates not only the "mobile borders" of Filipino America, but also its "mobile bodies" (p. xxv). Initially pondering the spectral Andrew Cunanan—the serial killer notorious for killing Gianni Versace—Isaac argues that as the American public misrecognized Cunanan's Filipino heritage, the United States has historically refused to acknowledge both the presence of Filipinos in America and the facticity of the U.S. empire itself.

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