“Not in Position to Give Up the Chace” appeared in the Washington Post May,1 1899
In 1899 America ratified a treaty with Spain in which they paid twenty million dollars to take control of the Philippines. Soon the United States was waging war against the recently established independent Republic of the Philippines lead by Emilio Aguinaldo. The war was portrayed to the United States citizens as a war against medieval tribes-people to establish US rule for the benefit of the indigenous people. What truly occurred was a three year extremely expensive war that revealed the brutality and racism the US military was capable of. This podcast talks about my paper Miscalculation and Racism about the Philippine American War.
Author: Liam Young
Interviewer: Dylan Shafer