Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Rom n Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer of color critique to show how U. S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U. S. subjects. The real and imagined intimacies whether expressed through friendship, love, or eroticism threatened U. S. gender and sexuality norms. To codify U. S.