Semi-Civilized: The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Semi-Civilized offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. Michael...
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Semi-Civilized: The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition by Hawkins, Michael C.

Semi-Civilized: The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

BD$115.19

Semi-Civilized: The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

BD$115.19
Author: Michael C. Hawkins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Semi-Civilized offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. Michael C. Hawkins examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked historical episode.

By reviving and contextualizing Moro participation in the exposition, Hawkins challenges the typical manifestations of empire drawn from the fair and delivers a nuanced and textured vision of the nature of American imperial discourse. In Semi-Civilized Hawkins argues that the Moro display provided a distinctive liminal space in the dialectical relationship between civilization and savagery at the fair. The Moros offered a transcultural bridge. Through their official yet nondescript designation as "semi-civilized," they undermined and mediated the various binaries structuring the exposition. As Hawkins demonstrates, this mediation represented an unexpectedly welcomed challenge to the binary logic and discomfort of the display.

As Semi-Civilized shows, the Moro display was collaborative, and the Moros exercised unexpected agency by negotiating how the display was both structured and interpreted by the public. Fairgoers were actively seeking an extraordinary experience. Exhibit organizers framed it, but ultimately the Moros provided it. And therein lay a tremendous amount of power.



Author: Michael C. Hawkins
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 03/15/2020
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781501748219
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Michael C. Hawkins is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Creighton University. He is author of Making Moros.


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