Monthly Archives: January 2012
“Skid Row” and Filipino Communities
“‘Skid Row’: Filipinos, Race and the Social Construction of Space in San Diego.” An interesting essay on San Diego’s Filipino community, by Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. The first real Filipino enclave that I encountered was in Stockton, CA. When attending Filipino dances there with my parents, they would sometimes eat at a Filipino (or was [...]
F is for the Filipino American Farmer
Aileen Suzara (Kitchen Kwento) contemplates the history of farming in her family and among Filipinos in the U.S. in “F is for the Filipino American Farmer.” I’m reminded of my mother’s constant gardening, the sounds of her puttering around outside with her rake, shovel, or hoe (rhythmic sound of metal against earth); the gurgling of [...]
“On Community”
Raymond Williams: On Community. From a post by Thivai Abhor in his blog, Dialogic. Useful for me, as I am rethinking and rewriting my ideas on community, as initially set out in my dissertation. Yep, I really need to do that. This is also after having read “Reconceptualizing Asian American Communities” by Huping Ling, and [...]
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