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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| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2022-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transnational American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/id/43119/ |
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