Locating Filipino Americans

Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space

Author: Rick Bonus
ISBN: 9781566397797

The Filipino American population in the U.S. is expected to reach more than two million by the next century. Yet many Filipino Americans contend that years of formal and covert exclusion from mainstream political, social, and economic institutuions of the basis of their race have perpetuated racist stereotypes about them, ignored their colonial and immigration history, and prevented them from becoming fully recognized citizens of the nation. Locating Filipino Americans shows how Filipino Americans counter exclusion by actively engaging in alternative practices of community building. Locating Filipino Americans, an ethnographic study of Filipino American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego, presents a multi-disciplinary cultural analysis of the relationship between ethnic identiy and social space. Author Rick Bonus argues that alternative community spaces enable Filipino Americans to respond to and resist the ways in which the larger society has historically and institutionally ren

Publisher: Temple University Press
Publish Date: 2000

Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General, Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Sociology / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Asian/Pacific Islander American (APIA))