“The Racial Vectors of Empire” Check-Up Test

T/F
1. Soon after conquest, American government officials and politicians were drawn into
answering the question as to what to do with the new colony.
2. These were divided into two camps, those in favour through assimilation, and therefore
imperial expansion, and those not, fearing alien menace to the homeland.
3. Both sides, however, were united in constructing a racial ideology to the question.
4. Anti-imperialists considered obligation and opportunistic expansion as the reason for
their ideological position.
5. Where Blacks and Chinese were considered serious threats to employment, the Filipinos
were not, or so argued the imperialists.
6. The Philippine commission organized by Pres. McKinley in 1898 was meant to survey
and report on the conditions of the country.
7. The production of racial knowledge on the Philippines through surveys and censuses
ensured that race and class became permanent markers in American imperial expansion
not only in the Philippines but also elsewhere like Cuba and Puerto Rico.
8. Unless these distinctions were made, it was going to prove difficult to mark out
territories or national boundaries from subject peoples or national communities.
9. That race was a central organizing principle in all these discourses meant that the idea of
‘difference’ was the chief underlying motive of colonialization.
10. “Blacks” meant that Filipinos were sexually inactive, while “half-Chinese” meant that
they were recalcitrant and primitive.

Identify.
1. This phrase came from Rudyard Kipling’s poem and picked up by American imperial
expansion to rationalize their colonial ambition as it was meant to be.
2. Their shores were bloody and benighted, argued this Senator, to be made beautiful and
bright.
3. Sen. Lodge’s water metaphor on the Philippines as showing promise for everyone.
4. This model of territorial acquisition referred to gradual expansion of adjacent or
neighbouring lands as espoused by the European imperial nations.
5. Racial composition, geography and this meant that Filipinos did not match Western
democratic requirements, argued the opponents of annexation.
6. In the beginning, Filipinos were exempted from this, unlike the Chinese or Japanese,
who were not part of American territory.
7. Public debate about Philippine policy centered on portraying Filipinos as a poisonous
admixture of this phrase.
8. This phrase became a convenient legal excuse for the government to classify Filipinos
and Puerto Ricans, unlike newly acquired states like Texas, New Mexico or California.
9. Filipinos in the survey were living in these, making them appear as zoological
specimens.
10. There were three “pure” Filipino races, but a fourth one was this.