Author Archives: Richard Guzman
The Empty Center and the International Style – Part 1
The following was a talk given in 2003, in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the 9th Annual National Conference of the Asian Studies Development Program, an initiative of the East-West Center, Univesity of Hawai’i, Manoa. READ PART 2. The “empty center” refers … Continue reading
The “White Man’s Burden” in Toons
I had forgotten that Rudyard Kipling wrote his remarkably racist and smug poem to encourage Americans as they took over my homeland, the Philippines. The “burden” white men take up is the burden of civilizing the world. “Take up the … Continue reading
Filipinos in the Land of the Hyper-Real
Note: The following is part of a talk delivered at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, DePaul University, November 2014. It may be my favorite piece of music ever on TV. Below, watch a VIDEO of the “Filipino Concert … Continue reading