Locating Filipino Americans : ethnicity and the cultural politics of space | WorldCat.org
Shows how Filipino Americans counter exclusion by actively engaging in alternative practices of community building. This book presents an ethnographic study of Filipino American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego that presents a multi-disciplinary cultural analysis of the relationship between ethnic identity and social space.
Print Book, English, 2000
Temple Univ. Press, Philadelphia, Pa, 2000
XIII, 217 S
9781566397780, 9781566397797, 1566397782, 1566397790
247680319
CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Marking Locations 1. Cartographies of Ethnicity 2. Filipinos and Filipinas in America 3. Marking and Marketing Identities in Filipino "Oriental" Stores 4. Palengke Politics and Beauty Pageants in Filipino Community Centers 5. Homeland Memories and Media: Filipino Images and Imaginations in America Conclusion: Re-marking Locations Notes Index