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Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California

Name: Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822353393
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Contributors:

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Anthropology

Book Topic:

20th Century, American, Cultural & Social

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Release Date:

6/17/2013

ISBN 13:

9780822353393

Weight:

1.45 lbs

Size:

9.20 x 6.10 x 1.10 inches

Pages:

464

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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.

Mabalon draws on oral histories, newspapers, photographs, personal archives, and her own family's history in Stockton. She reveals how Filipina/o immigrants created a community and ethnic culture shaped by their identities as colonial subjects of the United States, their racialization in Stockton as brown people, and their collective experiences in the fields and in the Little Manila neighborhood. In the process, Mabalon places Filipinas/os at the center of the development of California agriculture and the urban West.

About the Author

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon is Associate Professor of History at San Francisco State University.

Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California

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