Business Success Under Colonial Rule in the Philippines
So one of the first things which popped into my mind when I saw the picture for this adverstisement was that it was a symbol of American economic and cultural…
Jane Palomar on Marriage and the Filipino Race
I came across this article about the Filipino actress, Jane Palomar, from the early 1960s in a magazine called Graphic. The article is called “Girl With a Mind of Her…
Representing Minorities in Late-1970s Vietnam
I was looking at a pictorial magazine called "Vietnam." Has anyone studied these types of magazines before? I think people have studied magazines like "Life," but in the Socialist world there…
A Thai Beauty Queen and the Blood of Her Soldiers
I was looking at a Thai newspaper from the 1930s called the Siam Rashdra Daily News. The front page for April 24, 1935 had an image and a notice right…