Filipinos in the East Bay

Filipinos in the East Bay
Author: Evelyn Luluguisen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738558325

Filipinos are a community nearly 2.5-million strong in the United States in 2007. At the turn of the 20th century, the first wave of Filipino migration began, continuing until the start of World War II. During this time span, sponsored students, veterans of the Philippine-American War and their families, and young men recruited in the Philippines to serve in the U.S. military or work in California and Hawaii's expanding agricultural industries would all arrive in the United States. On the San Francisco Bay Area's eastern shore, Filipino presence in the labor force transitioned with the region's economic and social evolution from mainly farm and service laborers to industrial workers to professional, administrative, and service workers. Today the East Bay is a vibrant center of the Filipino community's deeply rooted and rich cultural, political, and economic life.

Filipinos in the East Bay

Filipinos in the East Bay
Author: Evangeline Canonizado Buell
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2008-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781531637507

Filipinos are a community nearly 2.5-million strong in the United States in 2007. At the turn of the 20th century, the first wave of Filipino migration began, continuing until the start of World War II. During this time span, sponsored students, veterans of the Philippine-American War and their families, and young men recruited in the Philippines to serve in the U.S. military or work in California and Hawaii's expanding agricultural industries would all arrive in the United States. On the San Francisco Bay Area's eastern shore, Filipino presence in the labor force transitioned with the region's economic and social evolution from mainly farm and service laborers to industrial workers to professional, administrative, and service workers. Today the East Bay is a vibrant center of the Filipino community's deeply rooted and rich cultural, political, and economic life.

Filipino American National Historical Society. East Bay Chapter Records

Filipino American National Historical Society. East Bay Chapter Records
Author: Filipino American National Historical Society. East Bay Chapter
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1977
Genre: Filipino Americans
ISBN:

The collection contains organization bylaws, background iniformation, correspondence, meeting minutes, National conference programs and papers, event announcements, project documents, awards, financial records, membership outreach, and related materials from other organizations. Included are papers focusing on iindividual Filipino Americans; primarily Evangeline Canonizado Buell, co-founder and President of the East Bay Chapter. Her materials consist of biographical information, correspondence, writings and speeches, resources from the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, and personal notes. Also included are biographical materials for Al Robles, Helen Cabaulejo Toribio, Peter G. Valasco, and others. There are organization newsletters and publications, as well as, reference and resource materials on Filipino American leaders and activists, and current issues pertaining the the Filipino American community.

Filipinos in San Francisco

Filipinos in San Francisco
Author:
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780738581316

Tens of thousands of Filipinos who have lived, worked, and raised families for over five generations in this unique city stake their rightful claim to more than a century of shared history in San Francisco. The photographs herein attest to the early arrivals, who came as merchant mariners, businesspeople, scholars, and musicians, as well as agricultural and domestic workers. But their story has often been ignored, told incompletely by others, and edited too selectively by many. The Filipino American experience both epitomizes and defies the traditional immigrant storyline, and these pictures honestly and respectfully document the fruits of their labors, the products of their perseverance, and, at times, their resistance to social exclusion and economic suppression.

Filipinos in Carson and the South Bay

Filipinos in Carson and the South Bay
Author: Florante Peter Ibanez
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738570365

One of Carson's most distinct features is its diversity. The city is roughly one-quarter each Hispanic, African American, white, and Asian/ Pacific Islander. This last group's vast majority are Filipinos who settled as early as the 1920s as farmworkers, U.S. military recruits, entrepreneurs, medical professionals, and other laborers, filling the economic needs of the Los Angeles region. This vibrant community hosts fiestas like the Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture and has produced local community heroes, including "Uncle Roy" Morales and "Auntie Helen" Summers Brown. Filipino students of the 1970s organized to gain college admissions, establish ethnic studies, and foster civic leadership, while Filipino businesses have flourished in Carson, San Pedro, Wilmington, Long Beach, and the surrounding communities. Carson is recognized nationally as a Filipino American destination for families and businesses, very much connected to the island homeland.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies
Author: Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 2037
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1071829017

Filipino Americans are one of the three largest Asian American groups in the United States and the second largest immigrant population in the country. Yet within the field of Asian American Studies, Filipino American history and culture have received comparatively less attention than have other ethnic groups. Over the past twenty years, however, Filipino American scholars across various disciplines have published numerous books and research articles, as a way of addressing their unique concerns and experiences as an ethnic group. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, the first on the topic of Filipino American Studies, offers a comprehensive survey of an emerging field, focusing on the Filipino diaspora in the United States as well as highlighting issues facing immigrant groups in general. It covers a broad range of topics and disciplines including activism and education, arts and humanities, health, history and historical figures, immigration, psychology, regional trends, and sociology and social issues.

Filipino American Faith in Action

Filipino American Faith in Action
Author: Joaquin Jay Gonzalez
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814732976

Filipinos are now the second largest Asian American immigrant group in the United States, with a population larger than Japanese Americans and Korean Americans combined. Surprisingly, there is little published on Filipino Americans and their religion, or the ways in which their religious traditions may influence the broader culture in which they are becoming established. Filipino American Faith in Action draws on interviews, survey data, and participant observation to shed light on this large immigrant community. It explores Filipino American religious institutions as essential locations for empowerment and civic engagement, illuminating how Filipino spiritual experiences can offer a lens for viewing this migrant community’s social, political, economic, and cultural integration into American life. Gonzalez examines Filipino American church involvement and religious practices in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Phillipines, showing how Filipino Americans maintain community and ethnic and religious networks, contra assimilation theory, and how they go about sharing their traditions with the larger society.