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Filipino Americans
Transformation and Identity

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May 1997 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

"Maria P. P. Root's new edited volume on Filipino American makes an outstanding contribution in terms of exploring the socio-economic integration and the transformation of ethnic identities among one of the largest, fastest growing, but least studied Asian American groups in the United States - Filipinos. . . . One unique area covered by this book is its thoughtful reflection on the impacts of colonization on Filipino literature and the articulation of Filipino identities . . . . The book provides an unusual breadth of information on Filipino lives in the U.S.A. . . . I found this book very valuable as an introductory text in an undergraduate curriculum on Asian American studies, and in racial and ethnic studies. The power of the book lies in its ability to render problematic the stereotypes of Asian Americans, and to question the preconceived categories of race, culture, and ethnicity. The book's discussion and reflection on identities is provocative and accessible to students."

--Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

"Maria P. P. Root succeeds where many ethnic-specific anthologies fail: focusing on the issue of a people's identity while avoiding boxing them in. . . . What is refreshing about this volume is not only the variety of perspectives, but the different styles. . . . Root and the contributors succeed in living up to the hope stated in the book's introduction, ''that these pages will offer challenging questions, some refreshing analysis, and new paradigms for interpreting the Filipino American experience.''

--Pacific Reader

Typically, when Asian Americans are discussed in the media, the reference is to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino-a group about which little is known or written, even though Filipinos have a long-standing history with the United States through colonization that effects how this group is viewed and views themselves. Aimed at rectifying this information dearth, this volume presents the first interdisciplinary analysis of who Filipinos are and what it means to be a Filipino American. With contributions from historians, social workers, community leaders, ethnic studies scholars, sociologists, educators, health care workers, political scientists, and psychologists, this book addresses such issues as 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 social-issues chapter to make the volume more useful as a foundational tool for hypothesis generation, empirical research, policy analysis and planning, and literature review. This book offers readers a rich and varied portrait of our largest Asian American ethnic group.


Fred Cordova
Foreword
Maria P P Root
Introduction
Peter Bacho
The Tragic Sense of Filipino History
Juanita Tamayo Lott
Demographic Changes Transforming the Filipino American Community
Antonio J A Pido
Macro/Micro Dimensions of Filipino Immigration to the United States
Nilda Rimonte
Colonialism's Legacy
The Inferiorizing of the Filipino

 
Leny Mendoza Strobel
Coming Full Circle
Narratives of Decolonization among Post-1965 Filipino Americans

 
Maria P P Root
Contemporary Mixed-Heritage Filipino Americans
Fighting Colonized Identities

 
Linda A Revilla
Filipino American Identity
Transcending the Crisis

 
Concepcion A Montoya
Living in the Shadows
The Undocumented Immigrant Experience of Filipinos

 
Raquel Z Ordoñez
Mail-Order Brides
An Emerging Community

 
Cynthia C Mejia-Giudici
Part of the Community
A Profile of Deaf Filipino Americans in Seattle

 
Theodore S Gonzalves
The Day the Dancers Stayed
On Filipino Cultural Nights

 
Jon Y Okamura and Amefil R Agbayani
Pamantasan
Filipino American Higher Education

 
Allan L Bergano and Barbara L Bergano-Kinney
Images, Roles and Expectations of Filipino Americans by Filipino Americans
Rick Bonus
Homeland Memories and Media
Filipino Images and Imaginations in America

 
M Evelina Galang
Deflowering the Sampaguita
Trinity A Ordona et al
Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie and Bi
Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out

 
Martin F Manalansan IV
At the Frontiers of Narrative
The Mapping of Filipino Gay Men's Lives in the United States

 
Antonio T Tiongson, Jr
Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater
Situating Young Filipino Mothers and Fathers Beyond the Dominant Discourse on Adolescent Pregnancy

 
Jacqueline T Jamero Berganio, Leonardo A Tacata Jr and Peter M Jamero
The Prevalence and Impact of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs on Filipino American Communities
Emilie Gaborne Dearing
The Family Tree
Dicovering Oneself

 
Peter M Jamero
The Filipino American Young Turks of Seattle
A Unique Experience in the American Sociopolitical Mainstream

 
Felix I Rodriguez
Filipino Americans and Ecology
New Challenges in the Global Future

 
Thelma B Burgonio-Watson
Filipino Spirituality
An Immigrant's Perspective

 

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