Consider the Coconut: Scientific Agriculture and the Racialization of Risk in the American Colonial Philippines

This article invokes the “molecular intimacies of empire” to illuminate the links between the superfood status of coconut oil and plantation labor in the American colonial Philippines. Prior to the American occupation in 1898, coconuts were a local crop that offered small growers a degree of protect...

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Main Author: Theresa Ventura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2022-08-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/id/43119/
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