Published In

Genealogy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2020

Subjects

Storytelling -- Social aspects, Storytelling in education, Bayanihan (community care)

Abstract

U.S. imperialism in the Philippines has led to the multiple generations of diasporic conditions of colonial amnesia and systematic forgetting of history. Its impact on the Filipinx community has left unrecorded memories and voices of immigrants silenced, and considered lost to history. This study examines the relationship between U.S. colonialism and imperialism in the Philippines and the experiences of Filipinx immigration to the U.S. through a critical Indigenous feminist lens of visual imagery and storytelling. Given that many of the experiences within the Filipinx diaspora in relation to the American Empire have been systematically forgotten and erased, this study utilizes family photographs in framing the challenges and reinscribes harmful hegemonic U.S. colonial and imperial narratives. With a combination of semi-structured interviews and photo analysis as a form of visual storytelling, the family photographs within the Filipinx diaspora may reframe, challenge, and resist hegemonic U.S. colonial and imperial narratives by holding memories of migration, loss, family belonging, and community across spatial and generational boundaries that attempt to erase by the U.S. nation-state. Results shed light on resistance and survivance through bayanihan (community care) spirit.

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.3390/genealogy4040111

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34315

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