{"title":"Martial Law Histories from a Critical Filipina/x/o American Perspective","authors":"Joy Sales","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2022.2152270","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay explores the intertwined personal, political, and intellectual journeys of the author, a Filipina/x/o American scholar seeking to understand the history and legacies of the Ferdinand E. Marcos dictatorship, also known as martial law. Inspired by a transnational movement of Filipinos fighting for national liberation and genuine democracy, the author recognizes her role as a people’s historian-one who researches and writes about the history of the movement while also being an activist herself.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"48 1","pages":"91 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2022.2152270","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This essay explores the intertwined personal, political, and intellectual journeys of the author, a Filipina/x/o American scholar seeking to understand the history and legacies of the Ferdinand E. Marcos dictatorship, also known as martial law. Inspired by a transnational movement of Filipinos fighting for national liberation and genuine democracy, the author recognizes her role as a people’s historian-one who researches and writes about the history of the movement while also being an activist herself.
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Since 1971, the Press has published Amerasia Journal, the leading interdisciplinary journal in Asian American Studies. After more than three decades and over 16,000 pages, Amerasia Journal has played an indispensable role in establishing Asian American Studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service, and public discourse.