White Love and Other Events in Filipino HistoryIn this wide ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U. S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt epic conceptions of Filipino history, Rafael treats in a condensed and concise manner clusters of historical detail and reflections that do not easily fit