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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.
The Prevalence and Impact of Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Drugs on Filipino American Communities
The Prevalence and Impact of Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Drugs on Filipino American Communities
There once was an elephant in the living room, but no one said anything about it. Family members walked around it, carried on their normal household activities in the cramped quarters, and pretended the elephant never existed despite its enormous mass.
An Elephant in the Living Room (Hastings & Typpo, 1983), a book often used in the substance abuse field, provides the analogy that living in a family in which there is alcoholism is a lot like living with an elephant in the living room. It illustrates how we tend to ignore ...
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