Author: Theodore S. Gonzalves
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738576084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Nearly one in four persons in Hawai'i is of Filipino heritage. Representing one-fifth of the state's workforce, Filipinos have been in Hawai'i for more than a century, turning the rough and raw materials of sugar and pineapple into billion-dollar commodities. This book traces a history from 1946--the last year that sakadas (plantation workers) were imported from the Philippines--to the centennial year of their settlement in Hawai'i. Filipinos are central to much that has been built and cherished in the state, including the agricultural industry, tourism, military presence, labor movements, community activism, politics, education, entertainment, and sports.
Author: Frank George Carpenter
Publisher:
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Author: Virgilio Menor Felipe
Publisher: Mutual Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781566475679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A revealing look at how Filipino laborers came and adapted to their new home in Hawai'i.
Author: Frank George Carpenter
Publisher:
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Author: Marian Minnie George
Publisher:
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Author: Luis V. Teodoro
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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This book is a political, cultural, economic, and historical analysis of the Filipino experience in Hawaii. In the first chapter an historical overview of the Philippines is found. The second chapter reviews the Filipino worker's role in the plantation system in Hawaii and details the immigration patterns of Filipinos to Hawaii from 1907 to 1929. Worker involvement in the labor movement is recounted in chapter three. Chapter four provides an analysis of the socioeconomic status of Filipinos in Hawaii, and chapter five focuses on labor force participation, Filipino women, and ethnicity. Philippine languages in Hawaii are discussed in chapter six. Chapters seven and eight describe various Filipino strategies for survival and their efforts to achieve integration and overcome stereotypes. An epilogue traces the development, culture, and attitudes over the course of three generations. (APM)
Author: Frank George Carpenter
Publisher:
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Author: Roderick N Labrador
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096762
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, Roderick Labrador delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity. In particular, Labrador speaks to the processes of identity making and the politics of representation among immigrant communities striving to resist marginalization in a globalized, transnational era. Critiquing the popular image of Hawai'i as a postracial paradise, he reveals how Filipino immigrants talk about their relationships to the place(s) they left and the place(s) where they've settled, and how these discourses shape their identities. He also shows how the struggle for community empowerment, identity territorialization, and the process of placing and boundary making continue to affect how minority groups construct the stories they tell about themselves, to themselves and others.
Author: Patricia May B. Jurilla
Publisher: Ateneo University Press
ISBN: 9715505635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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This pioneering work spans more than four centuries of publishing, from 1593, when the first book was printed in the country, to 2003, when the first nationwide survey on reading attitudes and preference was conducted.
Author: William Peterson
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824858239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Places for Happiness explores two of the most important performance-based activities in the Philippines: the processions and Passion Plays associated with Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon known as “street dancing.” The scale of these handcrafted performances in terms of duration, time commitment, and productive labor marks the Philippines as one of the world’s most significant and undervalued performance-centered cultures. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, William Peterson examines how people come together in the streets or on temporary stages, celebrating a shared sense of community and creating places for happiness. The first half of the book focuses on localized and often highly idiosyncratic versions of the Passion of Christ. Peterson considers not only what people do in these events, but what it feels like to participate. The book’s second half provides a window into the many expressions of “street dancing.” Street dancing is inflected by localized indigenous and folk dance traditions that are reinforced at school and practiced in conjunction with religious civic festivals. Peterson identifies key frames that shape and contain the individual in the Philippines, while tracking how the local expands its expressive home by engaging in a dialogue with regional, national, and diasporic Filipino imaginaries. Ultimately Places for Happiness explores how community-based performance responds to and fulfills basic human needs. Many Filipinos rely on family members and immediate neighbors for support and sustenance, and community-based performance assumes a unique and leading role in defining, reinforcing, and celebrating shared belief systems. By bringing forth the internal, phenomenological, and embodied aspects of a range of community-based practices contributing to human happiness, the book offers a cultural framework that interweaves the individual experience with that of the collective, plotting out what resides inside the body through the coordinates of culture.
