Communicating the Philippines Into the United States Master Script.

The social and ideological consequences of the American colonization of the Philippines in 1898 cannot be seen as a purely historical and political act. One cannot only look at the political policies that established colonization, but also look at the various 'communities of practice' aiding the legitimization and ideological construction of the American occupation of the Philippines. In this paper, I intend to discuss one 'community of practice': the stereograph card industry, a communicative medium used to photograph the Philippines as a new colonial possession for American consumption. More linguistically specific, I will focus on the overlooked printed text that accompanied the stereograph images. The printed text can naively be considered as primarily informational practices to complement the images. I believe this limited view does not give enough attention to the multidimensional meanings and agency of the text, therefore deserving a more nuanced and systematic study. The type of study that I feel is needed for this textual relationship to the Philippine colonization, is a social historical and cultural genealogical study of the printed text on back of the stereographs.***I could not download the digital stereograph images in the Appendix, but if my paper is accepted, I can provide digital images upon presentation time and full paper submittal. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]