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Suggested Readings

Many of our students seek a better understanding of Filipino history, cultures, politics, and language practices. For many Filipinos and Filipino Americans, being part of UHMFIL is a journey of finding oneself and reconciliation. To provide support to our students' search for illumination, we put together the following list of readings:


America-is-in-the-Heart
America Is In the Heart

by Carlos Bulosan

America-is-not-the-Heart
America Is Not the Heart

by Elaine Castillo

Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive
Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive

by Nerissa Balce

Building Filipino Hawaii
Building Filipino Hawaii

by Roderick Labrador

Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino - American Postcolonial Psychology
Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino - American Postcolonial Psychology

by E.J. R. David

Clothing the Colony
Clothing the Colony

by Stephanie Coo

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

by Jose Antonio Vargas

Dogeaters
Dogeaters

by Jessica Hagedorn

Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

by Catherine Choy

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawaii
Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawaii

by Jonathan Okamura

Filipino American Psychology
Filipino American Psychology

by Kevin Nadal

Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity
Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity

by Maria Root

Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility
Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility

by Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, and Roland Coloma

Giving Back: Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving
Giving Back: Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving

by Martin Manalansana

Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities
Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities

by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

Growing up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American
Growing up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American

by Peter Jamero

History of the Filipino People
History of the Filipino People

by Teodoro Agoncillo

Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries
Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

by Yen Le Espiritu

I was their American Dream
I was their American Dream

by Malaka Gharib

Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian
Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian

by Angela Reyes

Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space
Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space

by Rick Bonus

Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State
Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State

by Patricio Abinales

Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation

by Vicente Rafael

Pacific-Rims-Flip-Flops-Philippines-Basketball
Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball

by Rafe Bartholomew

Patron Saints of Nothing
Patron Saints of Nothing

by Randy Ribay

Reconceptualizing English Education in Multilingual Society: English in the Philippines
Reconceptualizing English Education in Multilingual Society: English in the Philippines

by Isabel Pefianco Martin (Ed.)

Rizal without the Overcoat
Rizal without the Overcoat

by Ambeth Ocampo

Rolling-the-R
Rolling the R's

by R. Zamora Linmark

Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work
Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work

by Beatriz Lorente

Servants of Globalization
Servants of Globalization

by Rhacel Parrenas

The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules by Anthony Ocampo The Groom will keep His Name
The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules by Anthony Ocampo The Groom will keep His Name

by Matt Ortile

The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines
The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines

by Caroline Hau

The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines
The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines

by Caroline Hau

Trese Vol 1: Murder on Balete Drive by Budjette Tan Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today
Trese Vol 1: Murder on Balete Drive

by Budjette Tan

Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today
Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today

by Ruanni Tupas

Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on Philippine Cultural History
Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on Philippine Cultural History

by Resil Mojares

Suggested Journals/Sources

  • Journal of Philippine Culture and Society
  • A Journal of the Southern Philippines