Building Diaspora : : Filipino Cultural Community Formation on the Internet /

Building Diaspora : : Filipino Cultural Community Formation on the Internet / / Emily Noelle Ignacio.

The dramatic growth of the Internet in recent years has provided opportunities for a host of relationships and communities-forged across great distances and even time-that would have seemed unimaginable only a short while ago. In Building Diaspora, Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have us...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Ignacio, Emily Noelle,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: Why Filipinos?
  • 1. Introduction: Filipino Community Formation on the Internet
  • 2. Problematizing Diaspora: If Nation, Culture, and Homeland Are Constructed, Why Bother with Diasporic Identity?
  • 3. Selling Out One's Culture: The Imagined Homeland and Authenticity
  • 4. "Ain't I a Filipino (Woman)?": Filipina as Gender Marker
  • 5. Laughter in the Rain: Jokes as Membership and Resistance
  • 6. E Pluribus or E Pluribus Unum?: Can There Be Unity in Diversity?
  • APPENDIX A: STUDYING THE DEFINITION OF "FILIPINO"
  • APPENDIX B: YOU MAY BE MARRIED TO A FILIPINA IF
  • APPENDIX C: ARE YOU REALLY FILIPINO?
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • About the Author

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