Republika Sang Negros

Negros is an Island in the Philippines. It has a rich history of social struggle. This paper examines those struggles in an alternative paradigm which does not focus on the colonial power but on the actions of the revolutions from the people itself against these colonial powers.

PRISM, 2019

This study is about the governorship of Mariano Perdices from 1959 to 1972. It focuses on the latter part of Mariano Perdices’ political career as governor of Negros Oriental. Suffice it to say, this study aims to discuss how Perdices – who started his political career as councilor of Dumaguete in 1932, then eventually mayor of Dumaguete during the Japanese occupation and later from 1954-1959 – became Governor of Negros Oriental and why he became very popular among Oriental Negrenses. Much emphasis is given to his achievements in infrastructure, health, and education. As a work of local history, the researcher then relies on interviews from the Perdices family and friends, and also documentary sources (i.e. books, newspaper/magazine articles, government archives). Based on the findings, it is indubitably clear that Perdices was a hardworking, well respected, and decent politician – indeed, a man of his time; his achievements in the fields of infrastructure, sports, health, and education were aplenty, and that – aside from his character – primarily became one of the reasons why he remained undefeated as Governor of Negros Oriental.

Philippine Studies, 2000

PRISM , 2020

This study discusses the collaboration issue of wartime Governor Guillermo Villanueva with the Japanese imperial forces from 1942 to 1945. More specifically, this study would delve into Villanueva's political collaboration and know whether he was a passive collaborator, i.e., refers to the kind of collaboration that most of the Filipino elites followed, which was to become "puppets" but not actively help the Japanese forces, or an active collaborator, i.e., refers to the kind of collaboration typified by extreme loyalty to Japan and hatred towards the Americans. As a work of local history, the researcher then relied on primary documentary sources taken from the RB Silliman War Papers and Silliman War Diaries. Some limitations of the study include the lack of primary sources (i.e., personal accounts) of Guillermo Villanueva himself. Nevertheless, from the evidence found, it is apparent that Villanueva's actions were an amalgamation of active and passive collaboration. He was a man caught in the middle, and his collaboration story evinces the challenges a wartime governor faces in a tight situation.

2001

The Revolution of 1896 marks the birth of the Filipino nation. It was a time when propagandistas and radical advocates, both in and outside the Catholic Church, were pressing for an independent nation, separate from Spain. It was an extraordinary time, and this volume makes available to readers selected works by scholars from different pats f the world, using varied historical sources, bringing in new perspectives on the war. Topics in this volume include the influx of refugees to Cavite, which affected the rivalry between Bonifacio and Aguinaldo; the travails of the Franciscan friars; the hopes and fears of a young Spanish soldier; the restrained exasperation of an aide-de-camp to the German cruiser squadron; and the circuitous "intra-Asia" trade. These and other essays in this volume reassess questions on the Revolution and the period it covers - gender, ethnicity, the military and corruption. A prologue where, besides introducing the topics and authors that write in the book, I explore the discourses of difference during the late Spanish period. Since those were the times of Social Darwinism and the Great Chain of Being, as well as the peak of influence of science, implying innate differences among "races", the role of Spain is specially ankward. While considered as "inferior" by Europeans, Spaniards did efforts to widen the gap in the colonies between them and the colonized as a way to solve their lack of legitimacy. It was one of the reasons of the Philippine Revolution in 1896 and their ultimate exit from the Philippine at 1898.

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Volume 29, Issue 2), 2023

This article discusses the relationship between constitution and colonies in Spain. Since 1837, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were expressly excluded from the formal constitutions of the metropolis. Differently to the type of constitutionalism from which they were expelled, the colonies, however, seemed to retain a real and material constitution, defined by geographers with geographic criteria, which ultimately served to uphold the whole political discourse concerning the particularities of nations overseas as well as to justify, in constitutional terms, their exclusion from the series of Spanish constitutions until the final collapse of their colonial regime in 1898.

Revista Brasileira de História, 2015

O presente artigo tem o objetivo de analisar as possibilidades de conquista de direitos cidadãos por parte do campesinato negro do Rio Grande do Sul durante a Primeira República, tomando o litoral norte do estado como locus de observação. Contesto, ou ao menos busco relativizar, a historiografia que enfatiza as limitações e obstáculos desse segmento populacional, oriundo da escravidão, para atingir tais prerrogativas. Procuro demonstrar os esforços e eventuais êxitos no alcance desses objetivos por meio de três grandes questões: o pagamento regular de impostos, o acesso à polícia e à justiça e a atuação militar.

Cuadernos de Historia (Instituto Cervantes, Manila), 1998, 2-3, pp. 255-267

The colonization of the Philippine lslands by the Spanish Crown will be continuously influenced by Spain's colonial experience in America. This is so not only due to the fact that the archipelago was vicariously administered thru territories in the New World. This circum stance is made evident shortly after the arrival of Legazpi in 1565 by the direct control of the clergy, and sorne civilian authorities, over the occupation process and in the reduccion of [establishment of reservations for) the indigenous population.