A couple of announcements:
The Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Public Library presents:And here's a link for the Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Collective Living Archive: the initial draft of a repository of documents pertaining to the Filipino and Filipino American progressive movement after 1986 -- an update of sorts to Schirmer and Shalom's The Philippines Reader: A History of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Dictatorship, and Resistance. Posted by the wily filipino at August 13, 2004 09:11 AM"Colored: Black n' White -- The Philippine-American War in American Popular Media, 1896-1907"
You are invited to join us:
Saturday, August 14, 2004
Opening Lecture with Exhibition Curators
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
A reception and exhibition viewing will follow in the Skylight Gallery"Colored: Black n' White" is an exhibition containing more than 70 magazine and newspaper cartoons from 1896 to 1907 which convey the political, racial, and gender sensibilities surrounding the Philippine -American War. The exhibition presents a perspective on the debate about manifest destiny and the United States as a global power, the cost of war and the administration's justification for colonial expansion and the portrayal of Filipinos and anti-war advocates in American media.
Curated by Abe Ignacio, Jorge Emmanuel and Helen Toribio and presented by the Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Public Library.
Exhibition Dates: August 14 through October 21, 2004
Main Library, Sixth Floor, Skylight Gallery
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)