Campaigns of knowledge : U.S. pedagogies of colonialism and occupation in the Philippine and Japan / Malini Johar Schueller

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. "Among a tropical people" : little brown brothers, individual liberty and self-government -- 2. Americanism and Filipino nationalism in English readers in the Philippines, 1905-1932 -- 3. Unhomeliness and educational anxieties in neocolonial Philippines : Tiempo and Cordero-Fernando -- 4. Articulations of decolonial thinking and collective subjectivity in Bulosan, Santos and Linmark -- 5. Mapping the Japanese tutelary subject in the classroom and brides schools -- 6. Mourning, nationalism and historical memory in Kojima, Shinoda, Albery, Houston, and Otsuka -- 7. Occupation tutelage and the pragmatics of individual memory -- Epilogue: The war on terror and education for democracy.

The creation of a new school system in the Philippines in 1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior, following its politics of violence with benevolent recuperation. The
pedagogy of recovery—in which schooling was central and natives were forced to accept empire through education—might have shown how Americans could be good occupiers, but it also created projects of Orientalist racial management: Filipinos had to be educated and civilized, while the Japanese had to be reeducated and “de-civilized.”