Filipinos in Stockton
Title | Filipinos in Stockton PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn B. Mabalon, Ph.D. |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738556246 |
The first Filipino settlers arrived in Stockton, California, around 1898, and through most of the 20th century, this city was home to the largest community of Filipinos outside the Philippines. Because countless Filipinos worked in, passed through, and settled here, it became the crossroads of Filipino America. Yet immigrants were greeted with signs that read "Positively No Filipinos Allowed" and were segregated to a four-block area centered on Lafayette and El Dorado Streets, which they called "Little Manila." In the 1970s, redevelopment and the Crosstown Freeway decimated the Little Manila neighborhood. Despite these barriers, Filipino Americans have created a vibrant ethnic community and a rich cultural legacy. Filipino immigrants and their descendants have shaped the history, culture, and economy of the San Joaquin Delta area.
Little Manila Is in the Heart
Title | Little Manila Is in the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn Bohulano Mabalon |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2013-06-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822395746 |
In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union halls, and barbershops. Little Manila was home to the largest community of Filipinas/os outside of the Philippines until the neighborhood was decimated by urban redevelopment in the 1960s. Narrating a history spanning much of the twentieth century, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon traces the growth of Stockton's Filipina/o American community, the birth and eventual destruction of Little Manila, and recent efforts to remember and preserve it. Mabalon draws on oral histories, newspapers, photographs, personal archives, and her own family's history in Stockton. She reveals how Filipina/o immigrants created a community and ethnic culture shaped by their identities as colonial subjects of the United States, their racialization in Stockton as brown people, and their collective experiences in the fields and in the Little Manila neighborhood. In the process, Mabalon places Filipinas/os at the center of the development of California agriculture and the urban West.
Filipinos in Stockton
Title | Filipinos in Stockton PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn B. Mabalon |
Publisher | Arcadia Library Editions |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2008-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781531635855 |
The first Filipino settlers arrived in Stockton, California, around 1898, and through most of the 20th century, this city was home to the largest community of Filipinos outside the Philippines. Because countless Filipinos worked in, passed through, and settled here, it became the crossroads of Filipino America. Yet immigrants were greeted with signs that read "Positively No Filipinos Allowed" and were segregated to a four-block area centered on Lafayette and El Dorado Streets, which they called "Little Manila." In the 1970s, redevelopment and the Crosstown Freeway decimated the Little Manila neighborhood. Despite these barriers, Filipino Americans have created a vibrant ethnic community and a rich cultural legacy. Filipino immigrants and their descendants have shaped the history, culture, and economy of the San Joaquin Delta area.
Journey for Justice
Title | Journey for Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Gayle Romasanta |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781732199323 |
This book, written by historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon with writer Gayle Romasanta, richly illustrated by Andre Sibayan, tells the story of Larry Itliong's lifelong fight for a farmworkers union, and the birth of one of the most significant American social movements of all time, the farmworker's struggle, and its most enduring union, the United Farm Workers.
Filipinos in San Francisco
Title | Filipinos in San Francisco PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
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.
Positively No Filipinos Allowed
Title | Positively No Filipinos Allowed PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio T. Tiongson |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781592131235 |
Essays challenging conventional narratives of Filipino American history and culture.
Filipinos in Carson and the South Bay
Title | Filipinos in Carson and the South Bay PDF eBook |
Author | Florante Peter Ibanez |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
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.