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THREAD OF GREAT READINGS ON PHILIPPINE SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS (most of which are available for free online).

1. Prof. Renato Constantino's THE MISEDUCATION OF THE FILIPINO which talks about the problems and the necessary goals of the PH educational system.

Available at https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7735/865e2ea8fd8d9662f3916ffe41cc14376706.pdf

2. RC Ileto's PHILIPPINE WARS AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY which outlines how our collective memory influences us to misrecognize events in the past as well as in the present.

3. Hogan's IN BUT NOT OF ASIA: REFLECTIONS ON PHILIPPINE NATIONALISM AS DISCOURSE, PROJECT AND EVALUATION which (in my honest opinion) is as helpful in understanding nationalism as Anderson's Imagined Communities.

Available at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0725513606060527

4. Mulder's FILIPINO IMAGES OF THE NATION which underscores the role of the middle class in advancing nationalism (and the failure thereof) through cultivating collective imagination in the public sphere.

Available at http://www.philippinestudies.net/files/journals/1/articles/2511/public/2511-2509-1-PB.pdf

5. McCoy's AN ANARCHY OF FAMILIES. This is a CLASSIC and a MUST-READ for those who want to understand elite democracy in particular and PH state in general. One of my favorites, most definitely! I recommend 11/10!

Available at
https://sirmykel.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/alfred-mccoy-an-anarchy-of-families.pdf

will post the others (dami pa ) later bc your girl needs to go to work lol

6. Quimpo's REVIEW: OLIGARCHIC PATRIMONIALISM, BOSSISM, ELECTORAL CLIENTELISM, AND CONTESTED DEMOCRACY IN THE PHILIPPINES, which is about the different (& dominant) frameworks that are used to make sense of PH politics.

Available at http://www.dpipe.tsukuba.ac.jp/~quimpo/SampleWritings/Oligarchic_Patrimonialism_Bossism_Electoral_Clientelism_and_Contested_Democracy

7. Fallows' "A DAMAGED CULTURE: A NEW PHILIPPINES?" which cites phenomena and practices under the Filipino culture that are instrumental in the overall stagnation (and even backwardness) of the country.

Available at https://www.scribd.com/document/100188936/A-Damaged-Culture

8. Guerrero's (or Sison's) PHILIPPINE SOCIETY AND REVOLUTION which prides itself of being a revolutionary text using Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to analyze the structure of the Philippine society.

Available at http://www.bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/1970s/PhilippineSocietyAndRevolution-4ed.pdf

9. Constable's MAID TO ORDER IN HONG KONG: STORIES OF MIGRANT WORKERS (SECOND EDITION) which presents tales of women OFWs for a historically and contextually grounded take on the capitalist world system. (Bonus: Foucauldian concepts present)

Preview at https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=HbMRG8bMcKYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

10. Ileto's PASYON AND REVOLUTION: POPULAR MOVEMENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1840-1910, which is a bottom-up perspective on understanding popular movements in the PH by focusing on the masses themselves. Will make you look at religion differently.

Preview at https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=UuMthgJ1KH4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

11. Mijares' THE CONJUGAL DICTATORSHIP OF FERDINAND AND IMELDA MARCOS. Exposé of the Marcoses' corruption written by the late dictator's media adviser and ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN THIS THREAD.

Free and full access / download at https://archive.org/details/TheConjugalDictatorshipOfFerdinandAndImeldaMarcosByPrimitivoMijares

12. Constantino's VENERATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING which is a reexamination of the credibility, role, and status of Rizal as the national hero-- a piece as controversial as it is brilliant.

Available at http://www.philreporter.com/Issue06-16-31-05/Veneration%20without%20Understanding2.doc

There's your first dozen!

To those who are asking: Yes, I've already read everything that I've included in this thread so far.

Suggestions, however, are still very much welcome