“Little Brown Brothers” Height and the Philippine–American Colonial Encounter (1898–1946)

This article looks at how scientific racism, biomedicine, public health, sports, and a nascent bureaucracy intersected in the making of height (human stature) as an important attribute of individuals and populations during the Philippine–American colonial encounter. In relation to the “tall” America...

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Published in:Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 66, no. 3 (Sep. 2018), 375-406
Main Author: Lasco, Gideon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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