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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.
Homeland Memories and Media: Filipino Images and Imaginations in America
Homeland Memories and Media: Filipino Images and Imaginations in America
In many Filipino American commercial establishments in southern California, one rarely misses the presence of a wide selection of community newspapers on display and usually free for the taking. The same may be said, although in varying degrees and intensities, about other Filipino communities elsewhere in the United States and other countries. But with the exception of the Bay Area, as my informants tell me, no one set of communities matches the considerable number of local papers circulated in the counties and peripheries of Los Angeles and San Diego, owing primarily to the geographical distribution of Filipino immigrant settlements in North America.
Such ubiquitous newspapers occupy significant ...
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