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This Week’s Recommendations 💙❤️💛
Articles —
FAHM with PBS SoCal
Celebrate the history, legacy and contributions of millions of Filipino Americans in Southern California and discover ways Fil-Ams preserve and maintain pride in their culture and heritage through art, community and food.
Books —
Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
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.
💡 Tip: Use the search bar on TFAWLETTERS.COM and search “little manila is in the heart” to see our past discussions on Dawn Bohulano Mabalon’s book!
Rizal Without the Overcoat by Ambeth R. Ocampo
This book is a collection of essays from Ambeth R. Ocampo’s newspaper column “Looking Back” that began in the Philippine Daily Globe and later moved to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He presents a readable and painless introduction to Jose Rizal and offers fascinating insights, lively anecdotes, academic intrigue, and little-known facts about the hero as human. Investigating Rizal’s own writings - his diaries, letters, and other papers – Ocampo attempts to strip the countless myths and rumors that surround the national hero.
Non-Fiction Book List
Curated by the Los Angeles Public Library, which includes:
A way home: a memoir of losing yourself and the beauty of returning by Cinelle Barnes
Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self by Alex Tizon
White House Doctor: Behind the Scenes With the Clinton and Bush Families by Dr. Connie Mariano
Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo by Jo Koy
The Philippines: What Everyone Needs to Know by Steven Rood
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century by Christopher Capozzola
…and much more!