This gathering of recent essays by cultural critic-scholar E. SAN JUAN Jr. represents a timely intervention in the global crisis of US imperialist hegemony and the advent of a multipolar world. It straddles the gap between the 9/11 “war on terrorism” and the ongoing Gaza genocide. The opening chapter remembering Apolinario Mabini is a symbolic gesture of refusing the present oppressive, unjust status quo. It signals a move to recover the primal scene of the 1896–98 “unfinished” revolution and the resistance to US aggression. It invokes the return of the repressed, midwived by sikolohiyang Pilipino and redeemed by national-popular mobilization. US colonial domination had morphed into the brutal Marcos dictatorship and the suceeding regimes infamous for torturing and killing with impunity. All decolonizing projects today need to harness the power of Mabini’s concept of a grassroots historical consciousness forged from a critique of racialist “white supremacy” witnessed in the ruthless genocide of the American pacification of its “Pacific possessions.” In other chapters, San Juan explores the morbid symptoms of servility plaguing the neocolony’s labor-export policy and educational system. Such ideological apparatuses as schools, the patriarchal family, media, and the pervasive commodification of cultural practices and institutions have contributed to legitimizing/mystifying the US-funded violence of oligarchic rule. (Gaza-Genocide/Sociology/Historical)

1. Mabini, Apolonario, 1864 ? 1903 ? Political And Social Views. 2. Colonization ? History ? 19th Century. 3. Decolonization ? Philippines ? History. 4. Philippines ? Foreign Relations ? United States. 5. United States ? Foreign Relations ? Philippines.