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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.
Images, Roles, and Expectations of Filipino Americans by Filipino Americans
Images, Roles, and Expectations of Filipino Americans by Filipino Americans
Although Filipino Americans are one of the largest and oldest Asian Pacific American ethnic groups in the United States, information on them is scarce. This information is predominately confined to America's West Coast and Hawaii. In light of the assumed differences between East and West Coast Filipino Americans in their available frames of references, the following hypothesis was formulated: that young East Coast Filipino Americans, of whom a larger proportion are products of post-1965 Filipino immigration, are more likely than West Coast Filipino Americans, who are products of Filipino immigration from the 1920s to 1930s, to have grown up in an environment ...
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