The White Apos: American Governors On The Cordillera Central by Frank Lawrence Jenista

The White Apos: American Governors On The Cordillera Central by Frank Lawrence JenistaExcerpt from the Preface:" The purpose of this study is to examine the Philippine experience, the fascinating but hitherto untold story of the interaction between the American colonial authorities and the independent headhunting, terrace building people of Luzon's Gran Cordillera Central. It focuses primarily on the province of Ifugao, for the American presence there was longest and best remembered. Despite the great cultural differences between the

eleven-year-old Gringo strives to make sense of his family and a world that is growing increasingly harsher before his young eyes

Joann Faung Jean Lee again draws upon her great skill and sensitivity as a journalist to reveal a rich mosaic of Asian American identities

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Yet they are little studied as a group by historians and researchers

The book opens with the annual spring dispatch

The anthology reflects the myriad changes faced by Filipinas in the twenty-first century

When the Americans stormed and captured the base

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she says: "In more ways than one

The confluence of literature and politics is nothing new in the Philippine literary scene

This little book is a compilation of basic

What follows is a classic fable of cunning and greed that escalates into a battle of wits and