A Brief Journey through Asian American History - Jordan Rahe - Julian-Ross Fernandez - Jefferson Kiyasu -Dylan Latham

approach by the US to christianize and democratize the Filipinos they colonized their area. Balce uses other authors’ writings to demonstrate the extent in which Filipinos were brutally beaten down by whites and how this sort of treatment to a dark race is not a new idea to white Americans by any means. Right now is obviously a very fragile time as Americans are beginning to recognize that this same sort of racism and brutality that Balce speaks is not gone. She seems to have hit the nail on the head when she talks about “the presence of the past.”

Dylan Latham, Jordan Rahe, Julian-Ross K Fernandez, Jefferson Kiyasu

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