本文探索菲律賓人在美國用以抗拒美國殖民主義歷史對菲律賓的抹滅的策略，以及思考美國和菲律賓人移民團體間的階級建立效果的「特殊」關係。本文研究Bienvenido Santos如何在1995年的短篇故事裡復原一段慈愛同化作用的歷史，即美國在菲律賓的殖民政策，並將其在冷戰時對性／別常態的全球焦慮的背景中重新框架。

This essay explores strategies by which Filipinos in the U.S. resist the erasure of the history of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines and contemplate the hierarchy-creating effects of the “special” relationship between the U.S. and the Philippines for Filipino migrant groups. It studies how Bienvenido Santos’s 1955 short stories recover a history of benevolent assimilation, as U.S. colonial policy in the Philippines, and also reframe it in the context of Cold War global anxieties over gender and sexual norms.