Filipino American transnational activism : diasporic politics among the second generation / / edited by Robyn M. Rodriguez.

• Superior document: Global Southeast Asian Diasporas; volume 01
• TeilnehmendeR: Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Global Southeast Asian Diasporas; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages).

"Filipino American Transnational Activism: Diasporic Politics in the Second Generation offers an account of how Filipinos born or raised in the United States often defy the multiple assimilationist agendas that attempt to shape their understandings of themselves. Despite conditions that might lead them to reject any kind of relationship to the Philippines in favor of a deep rootedness in the United States, many forge linkages to the "homeland" and are actively engaged in activism and social movements transnationally. Though it may well be true that most Filipino Americans have an ambivalent relationship to the Philippines, many of the chapters of this book show that other possibilities for belonging and imaginaries of "home" are being crafted and pursued".

Table of Contents

1. Being Filipino without the Philippines : second-generation Filipino American ethnic identification / Armand Gutierrez -- 2. Bayan ko (my country) : the KDP and a diasporic vision of Filipino American activism, 1972-1981 / Joy Sales -- 3. The Philippines Information Bulletin and the transnational anti-Marcos press / Mark John Sanchez -- 4. Artist as citizen : transnational cultural work in the national democratic movement of the Philippines / Ryan Leano -- 5. "Centerwomen" and the "fourth shift" : hidden figures of transnational Filipino activism in Los Angeles, 1972-1992 / Karen Buenavista Hanna -- 6. Painting the picture : Habi arts and collective mural making in the Los Angeles area / Darlene Marie "Daya" Mortel Edouard -- 7. The intertextuality of triumphant diasporic return : reading the novels of R. Zamora Linmark / L. Joyce Zapanta Mariano -- 8. Transpacific freedom dreams : the radical legacy of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes / Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castaneda and Wayne Jopanda.