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The growing presence of non-European cultures in America brings new challenges to as well as opportunities for parenting research. Whereas particular constructs of parent-child relationships were once considered universal, we now recognize distinct cultural variations. This is especially true in the case of Asian Americans, a population encompassing many diverse ethnicities.

Informed by a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies including detailed surveys of teenagers and their parents, Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships focuses on Chinese and Filipino Americans—large populations with markedly different histories and cultural influences—giving readers a new lens into the nature and meaning of cultural differences in parenting. Synthesizing data on adolescent autonomy and dependence, parental support and control (both crucial to adolescents’ wellbeing), and the rarely-explored concept of parental sacrifice, this ambitious volume:

• Compares the parental belief systems of European Americans and immigrant Chinese and their influence on parenting styles.
• Discusses the role of measurement equivalence in understanding Asian American parenting practices.
• Examines sacrifice as a central concept in Asian American parenting and in immigrant parenting in general.
• Analyzes how Asian American teenagers understand the support and control provided by their parents.
• Explores the dynamics of parent and child gender in Asian American parenting.
• Places these findings in the context of previous parenting research and identifies new directions for the field.

Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships is a uniquely informative reference for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students across multiple disciplines, including developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, sociology, and anthropology as well as ethnic and women’s studies.

"A much needed and extremely thoughtful contribution to the scholarship on Asian American families. The authors rely on a variety of research methods to reveal patterns that challenge stereotypes and urge us to move beyond pan ethnic categories and explore the rich diversity among Asian Americans. This book is an exemplary study of culture and parenting."

– Niobe Way, President, Society for Research on Adolescence /

Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University

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first trans-Pacific anthology, written in English ... Read more

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Experiencing the Disporia
This book is a must read for those trying to understand the assimilation of Filipino's into the American society.At times the works were rather deep, but after a bit of study, it is a total delight.I must say a lot of the material is not "easy reading" but it is all worth the effort.

Cerebral
This book was not what I expected, expecially after reading the previous reviews.The poetry is excellent but very cerebral! It is a Filipino version of what you study in Humanities in college.

All In One Place
Returning A Borrowed Tongue gathers the work of prominent poets who are Filipino or Filipino-American.The established writers, Gemino Abad, NVM Gonzalez, Jessica Hagedorn, are presented along with new voices likeJaime Jacinto.It soundstrite but I laughed, I cried, I read some of them over and over and wanted to talk to the poets themselves!Get this book if you have one drop of Filipino blood in you.Or even if you don't.

an amazing compilation
I loved it!With a spring of anthologies on Filipino and Filipino-American writers, this is one of the best.It runs the gambit of Filipinio poetry being done today from the reknown and well-published, to the up and coming and from the MFA academics to the social worker in South of Market.

Let's face it, there aren't a whole lot of places where writing by Filipinos is easily accesible and this book opens the door.Love it or leave it, it's at least here to be critiqued.

I've been a fan of Mr. Carbo's work since he submitted the "Filipino Politician" to "maganda", a Filipino literary publication from U.C. Berkeley, for print.I'm surprised his own book, "El Grupo McDonald's" is not found in the listing at amazon.com (another enjoyable work).

The best collection of Filipino poetry thus far!
I've searched many book stacks for Filipino poetry and came up empty until I found this excellent anthology edited by Nick Carbo. There are poets included that have high currency back in the Philippines but have no audience in America. Veteran poets like Dominador Ilio, Gemino Abad, Marjorie Evasco, and Ricardo de Ungria have poems in this book that attests to the vibrancy and superior writing that is happening in the Philippines.Younger Filipino American poets like Eugene Gloria, Catalina Cariaga, and Patrick Pardo are represented with wonderful poems that speak of their experiences of growing up Filipino and American. This book is "a must buy" as Marilyn Chin says in the blurb, not just for its historical value but for its poetic treasures. Kailani ... Read more

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"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family include 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a ‘campo’ boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. As a campo boy, I also began to see the two faces of America, a place where Filipinos were at once welcomed and excluded, were considered equal and were discriminated against. It was a place where the values of fairness and freedom often fell short when Filipinos put them to the test." -- Peter Jamero

Peter Jamero’s story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of what he calls the "bridge generation" -- the American-born children of the Filipinos recruited as farm workers in the 1920s and 30s. Their experiences span the gap between these early immigrants and those Filipinos who owe their U.S. residency to the liberalization of immigration laws in 1965. His book is a sequel of sorts to Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, with themes of heartbreaking struggle against racism and poverty and eventual triumph.

Jamero describes his early life in a farm-labor camp in Livingston, California, and the path that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far beyond Livingston. A longtime community activist and civic leader, Jamero describes decades of toil and progress before the Filipino community entered the sociopolitical mainstream. He shares a wealth of anecdotes and reflections from his career as an executive of health and human service programs in Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco. ... Read more

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A useful book for teachers.
I found out about this book from my in-laws after they received a signed copy from the author.Peter Jamero attended school with both of them and they considered him and, especially his brother who was their classmate, a friend.My wife borrowed it and read it and thought it was wonderful.She and I are both teachers and his journaling of his experiences in school are very helpful to us because it tells a side of prejudice that we don't get to see.My in-laws described him as a great guy to know and a fun person to be with.We see students who show us their true personalities while they conceal the attacks they receive from others.The reason that I purchasedthis book from Amazon was based on a conversation with my brother's wife.She is half Mexican and half Filipino and one of the most positive, friendly, hard-working people you could ever know.When I described the book to her, she said that it sounded like her life.I was floored.How could anyone show prejudice towards this wonderful person.This book is great in that it can help the victims of prejudice cope and help the rest of us realize that there are people suffering silently.

This book can serve to alert us to the problem and hopefully, the story of his life will let people see that you can't judge people by their skin color or their ethnicity.The story of Peter's life can show us that his successes are what define him. ... Read more

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Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Her sensitive analysis reveals that Filipino Americans confront U.S. domestic racism and global power structures by living transnational lives that are shaped as much by literal and symbolic ties to the Philippines as they are by social, economic, and political realities in the United States.

Espiritu deftly weaves vivid first-person narratives with larger social and historical contexts as she discovers the meaning of home, community, gender, and intergenerational relations among Filipinos. Among other topics, she explores the ways that female sexuality is defined in contradistinction to American mores and shows how this process becomes a way of opposing racial subjugation in this country. She also examines how Filipinos have integrated themselves into the American workplace and looks closely at the effects of colonialism. ... Read more

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A must-read Asian American Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Immigrant Studies Text
Yen Le Espiritu, in her book, Home Bound:Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, "contends that Filipino American racial formation is determined not only by the social, economic, and political forces in the United States but also by U.S. (neo)colonialism in the Philippines and capital investment in Asia" (1).Moreover, not content with the narrow, one-sided focus that Filipinos are transformed through the experience of colonialism and migration, Espiritu highlights how Filipinos "in turn transform and remake the social world around them" (2).Home Bound is most specifically an ethnographic study of Filipino Americans in and around San Diego, CA, that is grounded nicely by Espiritu through U.S. immigration laws, U.S. imperialism and colonialism, and intersectional analyses.Espiritu presents the experiences of Filipino Americans in order to educate us about this often overlooked population through their own voices.

Scholars in Women's Studies and Gender Studies may be especially drawn to chapter 7, where Espiritu focuses on the way gender is used by racialized immigrants to assert their superiority over the dominant (white).In this chapter Espiritu turns to second generation daughters and the way in which it is through them, specifically the enforcement of their "female morality-defined as women's dedication to their families and sexual restraint" (160), that racialized immigrants construct themselves as superior.In other words, in light of the racist oppressions they face, one method of responding that immigrants have deployed is to assert their (daughters') moral superiority over whites.Through the lens of generations (first, second, etc.) of immigration, Espiritu challenges us to think of the multiple, intersectional systems, at play, while making clear that this manner of response is not without its own complications and contradictions (namely, the perpetuation of sexist oppression and patriarchal power over daughters).

In addition, I found particularly compelling the end of Espiritu's book, chapters 8 and 9, where she delves more in depth to the ways in which Filipino Americans transform and remake the world around them.These two chapters excitingly point to the new and creative relations constructed by Filipino Americans in regards to cross-racial social relations and immigration as a technology of racialization and gendering.
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The struggle to save the International Hotel and prevent the eviction of its elderly residents became a focal point in the creation of the contemporary Asian American movement, especially among Filipinos. Like other minorities who were looking for positive models in their past to build an identity movement, Filipino youth found their "roots" in the stories and lives of the "manongs" (respected elders), and the anti-eviction movement became a key site for the formation of a distinct Filipino American consciousness. Estella Habal, a student activist during the anti-eviction protests, relates this history within the context of the broader left politics of the era, the urban housing movement, and San Francisco city politics. Ultimately, the hotel was razed, but a new one now occupies the site and commemorates the residents and activists who fought for low-income housing for the elderly and their right to remain in their own community. ... Read more

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In this incisive and polemical book, E. San Juan, Jr., the leading authority on Philippines-U.S. literary studies, goes beyond fashionable postcolonial theory to bring to our attention the complex history of Philippines-U.S. literary interactions. In sharp contrast to other works on the subject, the author presents Filipino literary production within the context of a long and sustained tradition of anti-imperialist insurgency, and foregrounds the strong presence of oppositional writing in the Philippines. After establishing the historical context of U.S. intervention and Filipino resistance, San Juan examines the work of two very significant writers. The first, Carlos Bulosan, a journalist and union activist, became in the author's words a 'tribune' of the people. Bulosan's writings which combine critique and prophecy do not allow us to forget the atrocities inflicted on the Filipino people.The other, Jose Garcia Villa, lapsed into premature obscurity on account of the complexity of his writings about the Filipino predicament. Read through San Juan's eyes, these writers are revealed as multifaceted thinkers and activists, not stereotypical ethnic artists.San Juan goes beyond literary studies and contemporary debates about nationalism and politics to point the way to a new direction in radical transformative writing. He uncovers hidden agendas in many previous accounts of U.S.-Philippine relations, and this book exemplifies how best to combine activist scholarship with historically grounded cultural commentary.Author note: E. San Juan, Jr. is Fellow of the Center for the Humanities and Visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan University, and Director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center. He was recently chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington University, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He received the 1999 Centennial Award for Literature from the Philippines Cultural Center. His most recent books are "Beyond Postcolonial Theory", "From Exile to Diaspora", "After Postcolonialism", and "Racism and Cultural Studies". ... Read more

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The first Filipino settlers arrived in Stockton, California, around 1898, and through most of the 20th century, this city was home to the largest community of Filipinos outside the Philippines. Because countless Filipinos worked in, passed through, and settled here, it became the crossroads of Filipino America. Yet immigrants were greeted with signs that read Positively No Filipinos Allowed and were segregated to a four-block area centered on Lafayette and El Dorado Streets, which they called Little Manila. In the 1970s, redevelopment and the Crosstown Freeway decimated the Little Manila neighborhood. Despite these barriers, Filipino Americans have created a vibrant ethnic community and a rich cultural legacy. Filipino immigrants and their descendants have shaped the history, culture, and economy of the San Joaquin Delta area. ... Read more

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An Important Read
I read this book front to back and am amazed at the stories told through pictures and words. A friend recommended this book after noticing my interest in history, and I am forwarding this recommendation to others I know. In general "Filipinos in Stockton" covers a very important time in American History, and this timeline is very important in regards to Stocktonians and other Philippine/Filipina/o Americans. You will not regret adding this book to your library! ... Read more

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The Philippines play a major role in expanding the international Filipino community through its promotion of international labor migration-Filipinos can currently be found in over 130 countries throughout the world.As the first major work to conceive of Filipino immigration as a diaspora, this study analyses the diasporic nature of Filipino relations, identities, and communities and shows how these transnational phenomena are socially constructed by the everyday actions and activities of Filipino Americans.Instead of focusing on an ethnic minority and its relation to its host society, a diasporic perspective places emphasis on the transnational relations created and maintained among that minority, its homeland, and other diasporic communities. Transnational ties are evident in the movement of people, money, consumer goods, information, and ideas.
Diaspora represents a new and fluid conceptual image quite apart from the usual coordinates based on physical location, territory, and distance.Transnational relations and practices will continue to be an increasingly important dimension of the Filipino American community because of the ongoing family-based immigration from the Philippines, further technological advances in communication and transportation, the expansion of transnational capital, and continuing racism and discrimination, all of which have made it necessary for Filipinos in the United States, the Philippines, and throughout the world to create and maintain diasporic lives and culture. ... Read more

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Since the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which contains a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests and waters teeming with salmon. Seattle was the closest mainland American port to the Far East. In 1909, the "Igorotte Village" was the most popular venue at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and the first Filipina war bride arrived. Filipinos laid telephone and telegraph cables from Seattle to Alaska; were seamen, U.S. Navy recruits, students, and cannery workers; and worked in lumber mills, restaurants, or as houseboys. With one Filipina woman to 30 men, most early Filipino families in the Puget Sound were interracial. After World War II , communities grew with the arrival of new war brides, military families, immigrants, and exchange students and workers. Second-generation Pinoys and Pinays began their families. With the 1965 revision of U.S. immigration laws, the Filipino population in Puget Sound cities, towns, and farm areas grew rapidly and changed dramatically--as did all of Puget Sound. ... Read more

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Filipinos are a community nearly 2.5-million strong in the United States in 2007. At the turn of the 20th century, the first wave of Filipino migration began, continuing until the start of World War II. During this time span, sponsored students, veterans of the Philippine-American War and their families, and young men recruited in the Philippines to serve in the U.S. military or work in California and Hawaii's expanding agricultural industries would all arrive in the United States. On the San Francisco Bay Area's eastern shore, Filipino presence in the labor force transitioned with the region's economic and social evolution from mainly farm and service laborers to industrial workers to professional, administrative, and service workers. Today the East Bay is a vibrant center of the Filipino community's deeply rooted and rich cultural, political, and economic life. ... Read more

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Contrary to the stereotype which depicts them as economic successes, Asian workers have a high incidence of underemployment when compared to white workers. This book integrates immigration and labor market trends into an analysis of the economic assimilation of Asians in the U.S. It examines four forms of underemployment (unemployment, part-time employment, working poverty, and job mismatch) for Asian Indian, Filipino, and Vietnamese men and women. This study shows that Asian underemployment rates are consistently higher than for non-Hispanic whites, with Asian Indians having the highest rate. Each Asian group displayed varied effects of human capital, family and household, industry, and assimilation variables on the different underemployment categories. Important implications of the findings show that ethnic group variation in underemployment appears stronger than differences by gender.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1994; revised with new preface and index) ... Read more

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a hot topic rendered dull
Talking heads that exploit Asian Americans as "model minorities" assume that all Asian Americans are doing well.The author hear divides underemployment into four parts:those with no job, those with a job beneath their qualifications, those working part-time who could work full-time, and those getting paid unconscionable salaries and then asks how this affects three Asian-American groups: Indians, Filipinos, and the Vietnamese.

The author is diverse in choosing these groups, they are both yellow and brown, South Asian and Southeast Asian.The groups came to the United States at differing times, in differing numbers, and for differing reasons.The author also looks at how gender, years in the US, college education, and other factors affect this data.Her point is that Asian Americans are not in better positions than European Americans as some falsely argue.

While I loved this book's subject, the actual reading was painful.Only number crunchers would enjoy this book.She could have been discussing issues about which I don't care as boring as most of this read.I also wonder if the Census Bureau now has computer programs that could generate this info in a few minutes compared to someone actually getting a Ph.D. through presenting this info.This book felt so impersonal.Firstly, the author describes Asian immigration in terms that I don't think underscored the racism and imperialism that these groups faced.Second, when Apu spoke of being the top of his graduate class but still working at the Quik-E-Mart, I related more to a cartoon character than the dull info presented here.

This topic is timely and important.However, this book is only for hardcore statisticians, not for round-the-way anti-racist activists, readers, and thinkers. ... Read more

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Filipinos are now the second largest Asian American immigrant group in the United States, with a population larger than Japanese Americans and Korean Americans combined. Surprisingly, there is little published on Filipino Americans and their religion, or the ways in which their religious traditions may influence the broader culture in which they are becoming established.

Filipino American Faith in Action draws on interviews, survey data, and participant observation to shed light on this large immigrant community. It explores Filipino American religious institutions as essential locations for empowerment and civic engagement, illuminating how Filipino spiritual experiences can offer a lens for viewing this migrant community's social, political, economic, and cultural integration into American life. Gonzalez examines Filipino American church involvement and religious practices in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Phillipines, showing how Filipino Americans maintain community and ethnic and religious networks, contra assimilation theory, and how they go about sharing their traditions with the larger society.

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Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. Through performances - and parodies of them - these celebrations of national identity through music, dance and theatrical narratives reemphasize what it means to be Filipino American. In "The Day the Dancers Stayed", scholar and performer Theodore Gonzalves uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification. Gonzalves traces a genealogy of performance repertoire from the 1930s to the present. Culture nights serve several functions as exercises in nostalgia, celebrations of rigid community entertainment, and occasionally forums for political intervention. Taking up more recent parodies of Pilipino Cultural Nights, Gonzalves discusses how the rebellious spirit that enlivened the original seditious performances has been stifled. ... Read more