Transnationalism and Higher Education
Four Filipino Chicago Case Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11698596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara M Posadas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 7-37 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Ethnic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0278-5927 • E-ISSN: 1936-4695 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.2.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2325462707 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS AGO, when I began my work on Filipinos in the United States, relatively little about their history had appeared. Sociological studies written in the 1920s and 1930s, the powerful journalism of Carey McWilliams, and Carlos Bulosan’s quasi memoir, America Is in the Heart (1946), set the direction for what had been published. This and subsequent work, including H. Brett Melendy’s fine summary article in the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (1980), basically told of Filipinos who labored as migrants following the crops in the Pacific Coast states, in Alaskan salmon canneries, and on Hawaiian plantations—mostly a tale of young, single, nonwhite men, exploited by growers and labor contractors and cast to the sidelines, essentially as victims. Accurate up to a point, this foundational narrative left out much in the lives of the first Filipinos in the United States. Moreover, even as a handful of studies of the “old-timers” appeared, including my own work on those who arrived before 1935, the ground shifted dramatically to incorporate Filipinos who came in the years after World War II, especially following passage of the Immigration Act of 1965. These Filipinos would soon drastically outnumber those who came and settled during the first third of the twentieth century and, with the addition of their offspring to the story, would produce a significantly different Filipino immigration and ethnic history. Thus, to take a slightly more than century-long view of Filipino Americans constitutes a work of substantial addition and revision. It is also, inevitably, a work in progress. Thankfully, new generations of scholars in history, as well as in other disciplines, are laboring hard on this project. Over the last three decades, we have come to know much about Filipinos
Art history · Ethnic group · Immigration · Memoir · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · World War II · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |