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Yankis que piensan

El Heraldo de la Revolución was the official organ of the Revolutionary Government. Edited in Casa del Sr. Gregorio Ramos in Malolos twice a week in both Spanish and Tagalog, it would cease publication after the fall of Malolos during the Philippine-American War in 1899. The article “Yankis que piensan”, republished from El Heraldo de Madrid, highlights the different voices that, within the U.S., opposed “the new imperialistic policy” America was heading after its victory over Spain in 1898, including John Griffin Carlisle, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry C. Potter and an unidentified republican senator named Hoer. It shows how, far from being a homogeneous and solid discourse, U.S. American colonialism was not monolithic and the intervention in the Philippines prompted domestic debates around the very idea of US nationhood.  For a long time, Aguinaldo and the Revolutionary Government hoped that the US would keep Filipino independence and would not annex the archipelago, but they were not naive. The same number of El Heraldo also published correspondence with the editor by B. Aguinaldo from Panganisan that shows how provincial leaders were already preparing to kill any Americans and imperialists that would danger the independent Philippines.

Fecha

1899-01-19

Fuente

El Heraldo de la Revolución, year VI, num. 2, January 19, 1899, pp. 145-48. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Baldoz, Rick and César Ayala. 2013. “The Bordering of America: Colonialism and Citizenship in the Philippines and Puerto Rico”, Centro Journal 25 (1): 76–105.
Wolff, Leon, and Paul A. Kramer. 2006. Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn. New York, N.Y.: History Book Club.
Williams, Walter L. 1980. “United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippine Annexation: Implications for the Origins of American Imperialism”, The Journal of American History 66, num. 4: 810–31.

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Idioma

Spanish, Tagalog

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Materia

American colonialism

El Heraldo de la Revolución

Intervention

Philippine Revolution

Republic of Malolos

US-Philippines relations