Filipinas por Wilson
Renacimiento Filipino was a bilingual Spanish–Tagalog newspaper printed in Manila until the 1940s by the members of the Guerrero de Ermita family. Renacimento had a strong nationalist ideology and was associated with anticolonial and anti-American struggles, so it's not surprising that it supported Woodrow Wilson as US president. Wilson would be remembered as a defender of self-determination and the equality of nations, but he also inaugurated a time of American democratic interventionism, a vision that he first articulated in association with the Philippine question.
In November 1912, Renacimiento offered an illustrated report on the popular celebration of the 11th of November after Wilson’s victory in that year's U.S. presidential elections. This document suggests how the Philippines went earlier through the “Wilsonian moment” in Asia, which would follow U.S. victory in the first world war and, in that sense, foreshadowed the new global order under America’s redemptive mission to impose democracy and progress over (other parts of) the world. Renacimiento’s support would pay off after Wilson signed the “Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916”, replacing the Philippine Commission with a sovereign Philippine senate, the first step towards granting independence to the Philippine Islands.
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Fecha
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1912-11-21
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Fuente
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“Filipinas por Wilson”, El Renacimiento Filipino, year III, num. 115, November 21, 1912, pp. 624-625. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Relación
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Hamel, W. C. 2002. Race and Responsible Government: Woodrow Wilson and the Philippines (PhD dissertation), University of Michigan.
Manela Erez. 2007. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Emilio Vivó Capdevila
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Idioma
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Spanish
