This essay analyzes a narrative central to the politics of state homophobia in many contexts: the accusation that LGBTQ identities and mobilization are "foreign"? Whether seen as an effect of globalization, of a European agenda, of neo-colonization, of western cultural hegemony, or of a more...

"In Monetary Authorities Allan E. S. Lumba explores how money worked to justify racial and class hierarchies, enforce capitalist exploitation, and counter movements for decolonization in the American colonial Philippines. By tracing the archives of economic experts from the late nineteenth...