Confrontations, Crossing and Convergence: Photographs of the Philippines and the United States (1898-1998)

"A portrait of 100 years of Philippine U.S. relations, this book of photographs and essays reveals the powerful political implications of visualizing history and nationalism through the lenses of the camera. "CONFRONTATIONS, CROSSINGS, AND CONVERGENCE" graphically records the responses of those Filipinos who resisted ethnographic incursion upon their faces, bodies, and minds. An excellent resource for students, scholars, artists, and cultural workers."

— Russell Leong, Editor, Amerasia Journal

"Considering that the Filipinos were the first people in Asia to successfully launch an anticolonial nationalist movement for independence, it is a tragic fact of history that it was the United States of America that suppressed it and inaugurated an era of imperialist expansion, symbolically shredding its own Declaration of Independence. The exhibition, as well as the companion book, is a provocative and indispensable overview of the political, social, and cultural relations between the Philippines and the United States during the past century. It explodes the stereotypes, challenges received opinion, and opens up the discourse of colonial and postcolonial power relationships in vivid and spell-binding imagery."

— Albert Bote, Professor of Art Histon, UCLA

Published in 1998 by UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Southeast Asia Program

96 pages / Paperback