Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology
"Simply put, Dr. David's work is an act of psychological liberation. Through his command of the research, his skillful integration of both history and psychology, and his self-evident passion, he challenges Filipinos and Filipino Americans to look in the mirror and examine the psychological impact of Spanish and American colonialism. More importantly, his work is also an act of hope...hope that rests with the invitation to decolonize ourselves and our communities and to see ourselves and our histories with both clarity and pride. Frankly, it's an invitation we should all be accepting."Alvin N. Alvarez, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling, San Francisco State UniversityCo-Editor ofAsian American Psychology: Current PerspectivesPast President of the Asian American Psychological Association  "Dr. David's work is passionate to the extent that it arouses many collective emotions - anger at the centuries of historical oppression of Filipinos, sorrow for the lives lost to suicides and depression, dismay at the insidious and long-lasting nature of the legacy of colonialism, and the urgency to right the course for the community's psyche"Sumie Okazaki, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, New York UniversityCo-Editor ofAsian American Psychology: The Science of Lives in ContextandAsian American Mental Health: Assessment Theories and Methods "Brown Skin, White Minds is an accessible text...because the author understands the need to communicate beyond the discipline of psychology even while grounding the discourse within its parameters. This book is readable and palatable, for academics and the general public, which paves the way for mass decolonization to take place."Leny Mendoza Strobel, Ed.D., Professor and Chair of American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State UniversityAuthor ofComing Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1956 Filipino Americans, andEditor ofBabaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous  "Brown Skin, White Minds is an important contribution to the ongoing debate and discussion about the afterlife of colonialism in the lives of Filipinos and Filipino Americans.  This book is bound to be a major reference and a source of inspiration for future research on the topic."Martin F. Manalansan IV, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American StudiesUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAuthor ofGlobal Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora