An Unholy Wedding: Christianity, Civilizational Supremacy, and the In/visibility of “Race” in Post-colonial Philippines

“An Unholy Wedding: Christianity, Civilizational Supremacy, and the In/visibility of “Race” in Post colonial,” an Outcome archive entry by S. Lily Mendoza. The entry belongs to the crosscurrents collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses An often heard truism among homeland Filipinos in conversations with their diasporic counterparts in the United States is the notion that race and racism are irrelevant categories when. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including INTRODUCTION race: an irrelevant category in the philippine situation? An often heard truism among homeland Filipinos in conversations with their diasporic counterparts in the United States is the notion that race and racism are irrelevant categories when it comes to the Philippines. “Don’t export your racism to us,” is the usual protest. “There’s no racism in the Philippines. We all descend from the islands’ original peoples.” Wary—and rightfully so—of the often decontextualized exportation of debates and discourses to the home country (as has been the case historically in a kind of center periphery trajectory), one interlocutor quips: “You cannot employ. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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