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• A Time to Rise

  Collective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP)

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  "A Time to Rise" is an intimate look into the workings of the KDP, the only revolutionary organization that emerged in the Filipino American community during the politically turbulent 1970s and '80s. Overcoming cultural and class differences,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike

  Robles, Anthony D., 1964-

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  San Francisco Arts Commission award-winning poet Tony Robles focuses on a hunger strike held in April and May 2016 in protest of a number of local police killings. Robles also speaks of incarceration with a unique eye within the lens that is Frisco.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women Against Marcos

  Stories of Filipino and Filipino American Women Who Fought a Dictator

  De Guzman, Mila

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  "Women Against Marcos: Stories of Filipino and Filipino American Women Who Fought A Dictator" highlights the first person stories of six women (Mila Aguilar, Geline Avila, Aurora "Oyie" De Dios, Cindy Domingo, Sister Mary John Mananzan and Aida…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Migrant Returns

  Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity

  Pido, Eric J.,

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  In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and balikbayans—Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland—to reconceptualize migration as a process of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lolas' House

  Filipino Women Living With War

  Galang, M. Evelina, 1961-

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  Lolas’ House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino “comfort women.” During World War II more than 1,000 Filipino women and girls were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. They were taken from their homes,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invocation to Daughters

  Reyes, Barbara Jane,

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  "Invocation to Daughters" is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish, in meditations on the relationship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Subversive Lives

  a Family Memoir of the Marcos Years

  Quimpo, Susan F., 1961-

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  From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salamanca

  Alfar, Dean Francis,

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  Dean Alfar's first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation. Salamanca streaks across decades and spaces, tracking the stormy relationship between polymorphous-perverse…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Marcos Martial Law

  Never Again : a Brief History of Torture and Atrocity Under the New Society

  Robles, Raissa Espinosa-

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  A comprehensive and determined act of remembering, "Marcos Martial Law: Never Again" by Raissa Robles deploys efforts and focus to make sure that all generations do not forget the tortured past. (from the publisher)

• Boxer Codex

  a Modern Spanish Transcription and English Translation of 16th-century Exploration Accounts of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific

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  In 1947, Iberian colonial maritime scholar Professor Charles R. Boxer acquired a late 16th-century manuscript written by an anonymous sixteenth-century scribe who had compiled several eyewitness accounts of both Spanish and Portuguese expeditions.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thirty Years Later ... Catching Up With the Marcos-era Crimes

  Garcia, Myles A.

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  Until they were expelled from power thirty years ago in early 1986, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos (she, the Shoe Queen) jointly ruled the Philippines with impunity as “Conjugal Dictators” for 20+ years. They were an efficient cash-and-carry team—while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Migration Revolution

  Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age

  Aguilar, Filomeno V., Jr

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  Since the 1960s, overseas migration has become a major factor in the economy of the Philippines. It has also profoundly influenced the sense of nationhood of both migrants and nonmigrants. Migrant workers learned to view their home country as part…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Racism and Resistance Among the Filipino Diaspora

  Everyday Anti-racism in Australia

  Aquino, Kristine,

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  This book explores the ways in which Filipino migrants in Australia experience, understand and negotiate racism in their everyday lives. In particular, it explores the notion of everyday anti-racism – the strategies individuals deploy to manage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Diasporic Intimacies

  Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries

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  The first edited volume of its kind, featuring the works of leading scholars, artists, and activists who reflect on the contributions of queer Filipinos to Canadian culture and society. Addressing a wide range of issues beyond the academy, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bibliography of Filipino Novels, 1901-2000

  Jurilla, Patricia May B.

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  The most comprehensive bibliography of Filipino novels compiled so far, this book lists novels in Tagalog (Filipino), Tagalog (Filipino) translation, and English published in the Philippines during the twentieth century (from the publisher).

• An Archipelago of Care

  Filipino Migrants and Global Networks

  McKay, Deirdre, 1967-

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  Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal

  Stories

  Roley, Brian Ascalon,

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  A collection of stories that focuses on multigenerational tales of intertwined Filipino families. Set in the huge yet relatively overlooked and misunderstood Filipino diaspora in the United States, this book follows characters who live in the shadow…Read moreRead more of this annotation