Building Filipino Hawaiʻi
By: Roderick N. Labrador
Series: The Asian American experience; Asian American experience
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780252080364; 9780252038808
Subjects: Filipinos; Social conditions; Asian Americans; Ethnic relations; History
Description: "Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, Building Filipino Hawai'i delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Why do you want to go to Hawai'i?"; title: Overlapping architectures; title: "What's so p/funny?"; title: "Anything but ..."; title: "The center is not just for Filipinos, but for all of Hawai'i nei"; title: Conclusion: Unsettling Hawai'i.