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American History Tellers
This book was mentioned as one of the several books the guest, Dr. Vicente Rafael, authored concerning Filipino history, language, and culture. The discussion focused on the weaponization of language, specifically the contrast between Spanish policy of limiting Spanish education and American policy of promoting English.
He's a professor of history in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington, and author of several books on Filipino history, language and culture, including Motherless Tongues, the Insurge...
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This book was mentioned as one of the several books the guest, Dr. Vicente Rafael, authored concerning Filipino history, language, and culture. The discussion focused on the weaponization of language, specifically the contrast between Spanish policy of limiting Spanish education and American policy of promoting English.
He's a professor of history in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington, and author of several books on Filipino history, language and culture, including Motherless Tongues, the Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation.
In your book Motherless Tongues, one of the things you write about is the perhaps weaponization of language.