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The Latinos of Asia

Author : Anthony Christian Ocampo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804797573

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This “ groundbreaking book . . . is essential reading not only for the Filipino diaspora but for anyone who cares about the mysteries of racial identity” (Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist). Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what “color” you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the US Census as Asian. But the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines means that they share many cultural characteristics with Latinos, such as last names, religion, and language. Thus, Filipinos’ “color” —their sense of connection with other racial groups—changes depending on their social context. The Filipino story demonstrates how immigration is changing the way people negotiate race, particularly in cities like Los Angeles where Latinos and Asians now constitute a collective majority. Amplifying their voices, Ocampo illustrates how second-generation Filipino Americans’ racial identities change depending on the communities they grow up in, the schools they attend, and the people they befriend. Ultimately, The Latinos of Asia offers a window into both the racial consciousness of everyday people and the changing racial landscape of American society.

Locating Filipino Americans

Author : Rick Bonus
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1566397790

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The Filipino American population in the U.S. is expected to reach more than two million by the next century. Yet many Filipino Americans contend that years of formal and covert exclusion from mainstream political, social, and economic institutuions of the basis of their race have perpetuated racist stereotypes about them, ignored their colonial and immigration history, and prevented them from becoming fully recognized citizens of the nation. Locating Filipino Americans shows how Filipino Americans counter exclusion by actively engaging in alternative practices of community building. Locating Filipino Americans, an ethnographic study of Filipino American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego, presents a multi-disciplinary cultural analysis of the relationship between ethnic identiy and social space. Author Rick Bonus argues that alternative community spaces enable Filipino Americans to respond to and resist the ways in which the larger society has historically and institutionally rendered them invisible, silenced, and racialized. centers, and the community newspapers to demonstrate how ethnic identities are publicly constituted and communities are transformed. Delineating the spaces formed by diasporic consciousness, Bonus shows how community members appropriate elements from their former homeland and from their new settlements in ways defined by their critical stances against racism, homogenization, complete assimilation, and exclusionary citizenship. Locating Filipino Americans is one of the few books that offers a grounded approach to theoretical analyses of ethnicity and contemporary culture in the U.S. Author note: Rick Bonus is Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Filipino Americans

Author : Maria P. P. Root
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506319896

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Filipino Americans by Maria P. P. Root Pdf

When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino, a group of which little is known or written despite its long-standing history with the United States. This interdisciplinary analysis rectifies this dearth of information by addressing ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal and family relationships, mental health, race, and racism. In addition, the sociopolitical context is examined in each chapter, making the volume useful as a foundational tool for hypothesis generation, empirical research, policy analysis and planning, and literature review.

Filipinos in America

Author : Sarah Frank
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822548739

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Examines the history of Philippine immigration to the United States, discussing why they came, what they did when they got here, where they settled, and customs they brought with them.

The Filipino Americans

Author : Barbara M. Posadas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313033513

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In the year 2000, Filipino Americans will be the largest Asian American group. This volume is the first detailed historical study of the major post-1965 immigration of Filipinos to the United States. It provides comprehensive coverage of the recent Filipino American experience, from the pivotal Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, under which most Filipinos entered this country, to their values and customs, economic and political status, organizational affiliations, and contemporary issues and problems. Students and interested readers will be rewarded with a rich portrayal of individual immigrants and their stories. Filipino Americans emigrated from a nation that has a special relationship with the United States, dating from 1898 to 1946, when the Philippines was a U.S. colony. After a brief account of Philippine history, The Filipino Americans introduces a diverse immigrant population, with accounts of students, sailors, war brides, and nurses who arrived before 1965. Legislation in 1965 encouraged immigration of professionals, predominantly physicians and nurses, and permitted them to bring relatives. Posadas shows how these new Americans attempted to retain Philippine values and customs amid American economic, political, and cultural life. Family issues discussed include education and the model minority, gangs, divorce, and aging in a different culture. In addition, future immigration is an important topic, as many kin are left behind. The final chapter on Filipino American identity has particular relevance with today's multicultural debates. Tables, photos, a glossary, and biographical profiles complement this outstanding look at these new Americans.

Flippin'

Author : Luis Francia
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015040694104

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The Philippines, America's "showcase of democracy" and its only former colony in Asia, remains enigmatic to most Americans. What we know of this archipelago is very often condensed, filtered, or distorted y Western preconceptions and interpretations. Here, for the first time, are Filipino and Filipino American writers telling their lives in their own words. Here are stories of passion and betrayal, home and exile, the politics of the self and a nation in search of itself. Here are poems of such power and beauty that can rank among the best in the world. In these pages the reader will find familiar figures -- the greedy Marcoses, teenage gangs, game shows, rock star clones -- as well as characters and themes of every stripe and hue, from gay youngsters checking out surfer jocks in Hawai'i to Westernized girls coming out of convent school, from a searing recollection of gang rape to meditations on the spirit. Altogether, these works provide a deeper image of the Philippines and of Filipinos in America, as seen by some of the best writers from both sides of the world. Ultimately, it gives a unique and vivid perspective of America as well.

Filipinos in Los Angeles

Author : Mae Respicio Koerner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738547298

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Examines the migration of Filipinos into the United States, particularly in and around Los Angeles, where the early part of the twentieth century saw these newcomers filling important service-oriented industries, and now find Filipinos contributing to all aspects of life and culture in the area. Original.

Filipinos in Hawai'i

Author : Theodore S. Gonzalves,Roderick N. Labrador
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0738576085

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Filipinos in Hawai'i by Theodore S. Gonzalves,Roderick N. Labrador Pdf

Nearly one in four persons in Hawai'i is of Filipino heritage. Representing one-fifth of the state's workforce, Filipinos have been in Hawai'i for more than a century, turning the rough and raw materials of sugar and pineapple into billion-dollar commodities. This book traces a history from 1946--the last year that sakadas (plantation workers) were imported from the Philippines--to the centennial year of their settlement in Hawai'i. Filipinos are central to much that has been built and cherished in the state, including the agricultural industry, tourism, military presence, labor movements, community activism, politics, education, entertainment, and sports.

Filipinos in Stockton

Author : Dawn B. Mabalon, Ph.D.,Rico Reyes,Filipino American National Historical So
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738556246

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Filipinos in Stockton by Dawn B. Mabalon, Ph.D.,Rico Reyes,Filipino American National Historical So Pdf

The first Filipino settlers arrived in Stockton, California, around 1898, and through most of the 20th century, this city was home to the largest community of Filipinos outside the Philippines. Because countless Filipinos worked in, passed through, and settled here, it became the crossroads of Filipino America. Yet immigrants were greeted with signs that read "Positively No Filipinos Allowed" and were segregated to a four-block area centered on Lafayette and El Dorado Streets, which they called "Little Manila." In the 1970s, redevelopment and the Crosstown Freeway decimated the Little Manila neighborhood. Despite these barriers, Filipino Americans have created a vibrant ethnic community and a rich cultural legacy. Filipino immigrants and their descendants have shaped the history, culture, and economy of the San Joaquin Delta area.

Home Bound

Author : Yen Le Espiritu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520929265

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Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Her sensitive analysis reveals that Filipino Americans confront U.S. domestic racism and global power structures by living transnational lives that are shaped as much by literal and symbolic ties to the Philippines as they are by social, economic, and political realities in the United States. Espiritu deftly weaves vivid first-person narratives with larger social and historical contexts as she discovers the meaning of home, community, gender, and intergenerational relations among Filipinos. Among other topics, she explores the ways that female sexuality is defined in contradistinction to American mores and shows how this process becomes a way of opposing racial subjugation in this country. She also examines how Filipinos have integrated themselves into the American workplace and looks closely at the effects of colonialism.

Filipino American Lives

Author : Yen Le Espiritu
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781566393171

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First person narratives by Filipino Americans reveal the range of their experiences--before and after immigration.

Filipinos, Forgotten Asian Americans

Author : Fred Cordova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035093223

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Filipinos, Forgotten Asian Americans by Fred Cordova Pdf

Detailed description of the history of Filipino-Americans in the United States in photo-format.

Home Bound

Author : Yen Le Espiritu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520235274

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"In this highly original and inspired book, Espiritu bursts the binaries and shows us how the tensions of race, gender, nation, and colonial legacies situate contemporary transnationalism. Conceptually rich and empirically grounded, Home Bound blurs the borders of sociology and cultural studies like no other book I know. Kudos to Espiritu for this boundary-breaking tour de force!"—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica: Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence "A singular achievement. Not only does it cast light on the deep historical entanglements of immigration and imperialism, citizenship and race, and gender and subjectivity in the United States, but by highlighting the varied voices of Filipino Americans, it also calls attention to their creative potential to make a home under some of the most inhospitable conditions. Theoretically rich, empirically grounded, and lucidly written, this book marks a major advance in our attempts to understand the 'specter of migration' haunting the world today."—Vicente L. Rafael, author of White Love and Other Events in Filipino History "Home Bound combines excellent ethnography of the Filipino experience in the U.S. with a brilliant and devastating critique of traditional scholarship on immigration. Espiritu's analysis of how the vectors of identity articulate with one another is particularly cutting-edge."—Sarah J. Mahler, author of American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins "Using a critical transnational, feminist, and historical perspective, Espiritu insightfully and sensitively analyzes the meaning of home, community, friendship, love, and family for Filipino Americans. In the process, she unveils what these immigrants can tell us about gender, race, politics, economics, and culture in the United States today."—Diane L. Wolf, author of Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java "Espiritu makes an outstanding contribution to our appreciation of the dynamics of immigrant cultures within the political economy of transnationalism."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics

Vanishing Filipino Americans

Author : Peter M. Jamero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0761855009

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Documentation of Filipino history in America is largely limited to the experiences of the Manong Generation that immigrated to the U.S. during the early 1900s. Jamero documents the experiences and contributions of the second-generation Filipino Americans-the Bridge Generation-addressing a significant void in the history of Filipinos in America.

The Americanization of Filipinos

Author : Renato Perdon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1916-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0980482771

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This book explores the strong American influence on the Filipino way of life, beliefs, values, and institutions. During the American period ?American? democracy was adopted with a government that was compartmentalised into the Executive, Legislative and the Judiciary. The book travels down from the period when the Americans arrived in the Philippines. From the very early days of American administration of the country, English was adopted as the medium of instruction in schools to facilitate the indoctrination or Americanization of Filipinos. The late historian Teodoro A. Agoncillo said that the introduction of the American type of education in the Philippines placed ?native ideas, customs and traditions and even the national identity of the Filipinos in danger of obliteration.' Under American tutelage, the school curriculum did not have Filipino content. Filipinos were taught American songs, American ideals, the lives of American heroes and great men, but not about the heroism of Filipinos who they could emulate or from whom they could draw inspiration. The late writer and diplomat Pura Santillan-Castrence, one of the most prolific Filipina writers in English, described the effect of the American education on her: ?I did not learn Philippine geography, history and literature from the Thomasite American professors. I learned, instead, American geography, the history of American independence, and romantic English and American poems.' Movies, mainly American films, became a popular form of entertainment among Filipinos; this was followed by the introduction of new kinds of music, and Filipinos quickly learned to watch and play American games popular in the United States. Proper health became part of Filipino daily lives and they learned the value of cleanliness, proper hygiene, and healthy practices through the construction of hospitals, clinics, and health centers in the community.American influence on the life of the Filipinos is very strong and solid. One believed that Filipinos were ?apt pupils and need not be whipped into line to perform foreign tricks. They are naturally imitative and can out-American an American.' And the image of the ?brown Americans of Asia? was created and forever stamped on Filipinos.