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Currents of Militarization, Flows of Hip-Hop: Expanding the Geographies of Filipino American Culture
- Journal of Asian American Studies
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 1, February 2016
- pp. 25-46
- 10.1353/jaas.2016.0010
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This article demonstrates how Filipino American hip-hop performance reflects a history of U.S. militarization within Filipino diasporic communities. I argue that Filipino American emcee Geologic’s biography and poetics exemplify the cultural politics emanating from militarized Filipino American communities. I contend that these cultural politics are represented in a “Filipino American hip-hop vernacular,” a set of popular cultural practices emerging out of the shadows of U.S.-Philippine colonial and neocolonial encounter.