{"product_id":"semi-civilized-michael-c-hawkins-9781501748219","title":"Semi-Civilized: The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSemi-Civilized\u003c\/i\u003e offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. Michael C. Hawkins examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked historical episode. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy reviving and contextualizing Moro participation in the exposition, Hawkins challenges the typical manifestations of empire drawn from the fair and delivers a nuanced and textured vision of the nature of American imperial discourse. In \u003ci\u003eSemi-Civilized\u003c\/i\u003e Hawkins argues that the Moro display provided a distinctive liminal space in the dialectical relationship between civilization and savagery at the fair. The Moros offered a transcultural bridge. Through their official yet nondescript designation as \"semi-civilized,\" they undermined and mediated the various binaries structuring the exposition. As Hawkins demonstrates, this mediation represented an unexpectedly welcomed challenge to the binary logic and discomfort of the display. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eSemi-Civilized\u003c\/i\u003e shows, the Moro display was collaborative, and the Moros exercised unexpected agency by negotiating how the display was both structured and interpreted by the public. Fairgoers were actively seeking an extraordinary experience. Exhibit organizers framed it, but ultimately the Moros provided it. And therein lay a tremendous amount of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael C. Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501748211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501748219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Michael C. Hawkins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991363289343,"sku":"9781501748219","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_acaf5f3f-523f-4556-ac62-b29fe0c65db6.jpg?v=1683309854","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/semi-civilized-michael-c-hawkins-9781501748219","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}