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BEST-SELLING COLLECTION
CONTEMPORARY FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA is one of the finest collections of fiction by Philippine American writers.The book showcases topnotch writers such as Linda Ty-Casper, N.V.M. Gonzalez, CeciliaManguerra Brainard, Greg Sarris, Marianne Villanueva, Vince Gotera, EileenTabios, John Silva, and many others.This is a wonderful book! I highlyrecommend this book to you. ... Read more

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GREAT COLLECTION
I use this collection of fiction in my class and I am my students enjoy them a lot.I highly recommend this book as well as CONTEMPORARY FICTION BY FILIPINOS, to you.The stories in both anthologies showcase the bestfiction by Filipinos in America. ... Read more

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This work is a biography of Victorio Acosta Velasco, a Filipino-born journalist and labor leader who immigrated to the United States in 1924. At this time, thousands of young Filipinos were coming to America to further their education, find opportunity, and realize the idealism the U.S. was rumored to offer. Upon arriving in Seattle, however, Velasco learned that the _American Dream_ hardly applied to dark-skinned immigrants. Devalued by the workforce and spurned by white women, the disillusioned Velasco became involved in Filipino activities, but never conceded his place in American society. Amongst other achievements, he published poetry in nearly a dozen mainstream anthologies on American literature. Ultimately, by the end of the Second World War, Velasco had learned to approach his Caucasian relationships with more circumspection, and also began to experience intra-ethnic conflicts with other Filipinos. This book seeks to counter the negative, one-dimensional portraits of Asian men in popular media, and informs its readers of an authentic and challenging Filipino-American experience. ... Read more

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"Building Diaspora heralds an important development in cultural studies, ethnic studies, the sociology of media, and globalization. Emily Ignacio brings an extended, incisive empirical investigation that is still quite rare in the theory-heavy yet data-light field of cyberspace cultural studies. She carefully crafts a framework in which to showcase the itinerant ideas and desires of Filipinos talking to each other from various geographical locations."—Martin Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The dramatic growth of the Internet in recent years has provided opportunities for a host of relationships and communities—forged across great distances and even time—that would have seemed unimaginable only a short while ago.

In Building Diaspora, Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used these subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others. Through an extensive analysis of newsgroup debates, listserves, and website postings, she illustrates the significant ways that computer-mediated communication has contributed to solidifying what can credibly be called a Filipino diaspora. Lively cyber-discussions on topics including Eurocentrism, Orientalism, patriarchy, gender issues, language, and "mail-order-brides" have helped Filipinos better understand and articulate their postcolonial situation as well as their relationship with other national and ethnic communities around the world. Significant attention is given to the complicated history of Philippine-American relations, including the ways Filipinos are racialized as a result of their political and economic subjugation to U.S. interests.

As Filipinos and many other ethnic groups continue to migrate globally, Building Diaspora makes an important contribution to our changing understanding of "homeland." The author makes the powerful argument that while home is being further removed from geographic place, it is being increasingly territorialized in space. ... Read more

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ENJOYED THESE STORIES A LOT!
I've read all of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's books, and this is another winner.This, her second short story collection, explores her Philippine as well as Philippine American experiences.Like her other writings, thesestories are full of magic!I recommend them to you. ... Read more

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Historic Filipinotown was officially designated by Los Angeles City Council District 13 as one of the cityÂ’s historic geographic areas on August 2, 2002. It is the first Filipino community in America to merit a named area with distinct geographic boundaries. Also known as the Temple-Beverly Corridor, this area is located just west of central downtown. Historic Filipinotown was once home to one of the largest Filipino enclaves in California, a place where many Filipinos purchased their first homes, raised families, and established businesses. The cultural continuity of Filipino families and businesses in the corridor in the 21st century inspired the collective efforts of Filipino organizations, Los Angeles community leaders, and individuals working in concert to establish Historic Filipinotown and maintain its vibrant culture. ... Read more

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Uncovers Los Angeles History
Los Angeles is one of those places where history seems to be forgotten as quickly as its made. It seems like almost everyone is either moving into the city, out of the city, or around the city. And Historic Filipotown is one of those areas that we all drive through on our way to somewhere else but don't know much about. This beautiful collection of photographs and informative captions addresses both problems, and will change the way you look at the city.

Incredible Filipino history
The book's incredible photographs and captions really bring Historic Filipinotown to life.I had no idea how it all began and often wondered what is so historic about Filipinotown, now I know.This is really a great history book, especially for young Filipino Americans today.

Significant Historical Value
I grew up in "Filipino Town" and this book really opened my eyes to the significance & historical value of my old neighboorhood.I am grateful to the author for preserving its historical value for the future generations of Filipinos. ... Read more

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Pinoy Poetics, a collection of poetics essays (with sample poems), is the line drawn in the sand by poets of Filipino heritage who have been historically ignored and made invisible by the United States of America and its literary, cultural, and academic institutions. Philippine poets represented in this volume range from distinguished professors of English from the University of the Philippines, Manila Book Critics Circle National Book Award winners, and journalists that were detained and tortured during the Marcos dictatorship. The Filipino American poets range from a former San Francisco City sanitation worker, an activist high school teacher, to poets who have won fellowships in poetry from the N. E. A.

The poetics contained in this important book show what is unique to Filipino poetics. Among the important issues raised in these essays are responses to American imperialism, the postcolonial and diasporic Filipino experience, questions about historical narrative, and the uses and abuses of language imposed by colonizers. Public and academic libraries, as well as personal collections with interests in Poetry, Creative Writing, Asian American Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Identity Poetics, Filipino American Literature, and Philippine Literature will find this book indispensable.

Guggenheim Awardee and scholar Vicente L. Rafael (University of Washington) notes about this historic project:

"Pinoy Poetics is an ambitious project for it is no less than an archeology of the invisible. As editor Nick Carbo points out, the task of excavating the shards of Filipino poetry in English in the vast graveyard of U.S. memory is never ending. Along with Eileen R. Tabios, he has compiled an antitode to this imperial amnesia in the form of essays by Filipino and Filipino American poets reflecting on the techniques and trajectories of their work. These essays respond to the question of Pinoy invisibility by bringing forth the history and energy of their presence, but one which, to paraphrase another poet, locates the 'imperfect' as 'our paradise,' where 'delight...lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.' The soundings of Pinoy Poetics are the ghostly keenings that have haunted American poetry, and Philippine, too. Perhaps one day they will begin to take on more flesh and blood. This collection certainly offers that hope." ... Read more

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One of Carson’s most distinct features is its diversity. The city is roughly one-quarter each Hispanic, African American, white, and Asian/ Pacific Islander. This last group’s vast majority are Filipinos who settled as early as the 1920s as farmworkers, U.S. military recruits, entrepreneurs, medical professionals, and other laborers, filling the economic needs of the Los Angeles region. This vibrant community hosts fiestas like the Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture and has produced local community heroes, including “Uncle Roy” Morales and “Auntie Helen” Summers Brown. Filipino students of the 1970s organized to gain college admissions, establish ethnic studies, and foster civic leadership, while Filipino businesses have flourished in Carson, San Pedro, Wilmington, Long Beach, and the surrounding communities. Carson is recognized nationally as a Filipino American destination for families and businesses, very much connected to the island homeland. ... Read more

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I Recommend This Book
Being an adult Filipino born in the Philippines and raised in the U.S. since I was 3 years old, I really enjoyed this book. I didn't have living grandparents to raise me so it was fun reading Pati's experience. I could relate to all the Filipino traditions that her grandparents were trying to instill in her. I enjoyed her storytelling and read the book in one day! I recommend this book to any Filipino born in the U.S. or the Philippines.

Belinda

lolos and lolas
I finished reading this book in one direct plane ride from San Diego to Houston. It made me cry unashamedly in the airport and during the flight. It reminded me of how my parents raised my 3 daughters while I worked. Losing a parent in my case (a grandparent in my children's case) was a sad experience just as the author described it in the book.

A candidate for required reading
I thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Oracles."For the past 35 years, I have been an educator in a school whose Filipino population numbers over 50%.During that time, often I have been struck by the challenges faced by immigrant parents and grandparents who are raising American kids. For me, this topic was the heart of "The Oracles."Just as we read "House on Mango Street" and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" in our schools, "The Oracles" would be a worthy addition to our required reading lists.This book builds bridges of understanding. It doesn't get much better than that.

A great personal story that we can relate to
I loved this story. Pati writes in an engaging manner which makes it easy to read. I saw the author at a reading and she is throughly engaging. Her story is humorous, touching and will bring back many memories of growing up. It's interesting how a half-japanese and caucasian male can relate to so many of her stories of growing up in the Bay Area in the 1970's and 80's. ... Read more

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ANTING-ANTING STORIES
And Other
STRANGE TALES of the FILIPINOS

By
Sargent Kayme

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company 1901





FOREWORD

The life of the inhabitants of the far-away Eastern islands in which
the people of the United States are now so vitally interested opens to
our literature a new field not less fresh and original than that which
came to us when Mr. Kipling first published his Indian tales. India
had always possessed its wonders and its remarkable types, but they
waited long for adequate expression. No less wonderful and varied
are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new
author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples,
now gives us a collection of simple yet powerful stories which bring
them before us with dramatic vividness.

Pirates, half naked natives, pearls, man-apes, towering volcanoes
about whose summits clouds and unearthly traditions float together,
strange animals and birds, and stranger men, pythons, bejuco ropes
stained with human blood, feathering palm trees now fanned by soft
breezes and now crushed to the ground by tornadoes;--on no mimic
stage was ever a more wonderful scene set for such a company of
actors. That the truly remarkable stories written by Sargent Kayme
do not exaggerate the realities of this strange life can be easily
seen by any one who has read the letters from press correspondents,
our soldiers, or the more formal books of travel.

Strangest, perhaps, of all these possibilities for fiction is the
anting-anting, at once a mysterious power to protect its possessor
and the outward symbol of the protection. No more curious fetich
can be found in the history of folk-lore. A button, a coin, a bit of
paper with unintelligible words scribbled upon it, a bone, a stone,
a garment, anything, almost--often a thing of no intrinsic value--its
owner has been known to walk up to the muzzle of a loaded musket or
rush upon the point of a bayonet with a confidence so sublime as to
silence ridicule and to command admiration if not respect.

The Editor.





CONTENTS


The Anting-Anting of Captain Von Tollig1
The Cave in the Side of Coron 21
The Conjure Man of Siargao41
Mrs. Hannah Smith, Nurse65
The Fifteenth Wife93
"Our Lady of Pilar"113
A Question of Time 131
The Spirit of Mount Apo153
With What Measure Ye Mete179
Told at the Club 195
Pearls of Sulu 211

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Regine Velasquez (born Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez on April 22, 1970) is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer and TV host. She was dubbed the Asia's Songbird after winning the 1989 Asia Pacific Singing Contest in Hong Kong and is widely known for possessing a wide and powerful vocal range. Velasquez staged a solo concert at Carnegie Hall, part of Carnegie Hall's centennial-year concert series. In 2000, she performed the country's millennial theme, televised in 55 broadcast networks throughout the world to coincide with midnight in Manila. She has collaborated with artists such as Paul Anka, David Hasselhoff, 98 Degrees, Brian McKnight, Mandy Moore, Ronan Keating, Stephen Bishop, Jim Brickman, Peabo Bryson, Jeffrey Osborne, Dave Koz, Grasshopper, Coco Lee, Michel Legrand, David Pomeranz, Eduardo Capetillo, Fernando Carrillo, and Billy Crawford. "In Love With You," a duet with Jacky Cheung, reached MTV Asia and Channel V music charts. She has also embarked on several television and film projects, receiving a Best Actress Award for her portrayal of a mentally challenged woman in Maalaala Mo Kaya. Velasquez also formed IndiMusic (iMusic), a record label partnered with Bella Tan's Universal Records. She is currently managed by Aria Productions. Velásquez is the first child of Teresita and Gerardo Velásquez, born in Tondo, Metro Manila, Philippines on April 22, 1970. Her family moved to Hinundayan, Southern Leyte, where Velásquez studied at the Hinundayan Central School. Music had a large influence on her childhood; her father always sang Frank Sinatra songs to the children and her mother accompanied on guitar. Regine always loved music and even before she could read, she was singing along with the family. Her father noticed her tal... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5612337 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos (September 11, 1917 September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives (19491959) and a member of the Philippine Senate (19591965). He was Senate President in 1963. He falsely claimed that during World War II he had been the leader of Ang Maharlika, a guerilla force in northern Luzon. As Philippine president and strongman, his greatest achievement was in the fields of infrastructure development and international diplomacy. However, his administration was marred by massive authoritarian corruption, despotism, nepotism, political repression, and human rights violations. He benefited from a large personality cult in the Philippines during his regime. In 1983, his government was implicated in the assassination of his primary political opponent, Benigno Aquino, Jr.. The implication caused a chain of events, including a tainted presidential election that served as the catalyst for the People Power Revolution in February 1986 that led to his removal from power and eventual exile in Hawaii. It was later alleged that he and his wife Imelda Marcos had moved billions of dollars of embezzled public funds to the United States, Switzerland, and other countries, as well as into fictitious corporations during his 20 years in power. Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos was born September 11, 1917, in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte outside Laoag City to parents Mariano Marcos and Josefa Edralin. He was named after Ferdinand VII of Spain and baptized into the Philippine Independent Church. According to the Marcos family's oral history, the family name was originally Taguktok, and their Ilokano roots have some Japanese and Chinese ancestry. Ferdinand was ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=142721 ... Read more

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Chapters: Lea Salonga, Pinky Amador, Joan Almedilla, Rj Rosales, Cris Villonco, Gerard Salonga, Laurie Cadevida. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lea Salonga-Chien (born February 22, 1971) is a Filipina singer and actress best known for her musical role in Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World Awards, the first to win various international awards for a single role. She was the first Asian to play Eponine as well as the first Asian to play Fantine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and was the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin (1992) and Mulan for Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004). Salonga made her professional debut in 1978 at the age of seven in the musical The King and I by Repertory Philippines. She became the lead star of Annie and joined other productions such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fiddler on the Roof, The Rose Tattoo, The Sound of Music, The Goodbye Girl, Paper Moon and The Fantasticks. She began her recording career at the age of ten with her first album, Small Voice, which received a gold certification. A song on the album, the duet "Happiness", marked her first recording collaboration with her younger brother Gerard Salonga, who would, years later, work with her as musical director or creative director in her concerts and recordings. Her second album, "Lea", was released in 1988. In addition to performing in musical theater and recordings, Salonga hosted her own musical television show, Love, Lea, and was a member of the cast of German Moreno's teen variety show That's Entertainment. She acted in films, which included the family-oriented Tropang Bulilit, Like Father, Like Son, Ninja Kids, Captain Barbell, and Pik Pak Boom. She also opened for international ac...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=321059 ... Read more

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Tens of thousands of Filipinos who have lived, worked, and raised families for over five generations in this unique city stake their rightful claim to more than a century of shared history in San Francisco. The photographs herein attest to the early arrivals, who came as merchant mariners, businesspeople, scholars, and musicians, as well as agricultural and domestic workers. But their story has often been ignored, told incompletely by others, and edited too selectively by many. The Filipino American experience both epitomizes and defies the traditional immigrant storyline, and these pictures honestly and respectfully document the fruits of their labors, the products of their perseverance, and, at times, their resistance to social exclusion and economic suppression. ... Read more