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Growing Up Brown - Memoirs of a Filipino American (Paperback)
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Growing Up Brown - Memoirs of a Filipino American (Paperback)
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"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference
-- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a
Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a 'campo' boy that I first
learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that
Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise
that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the
values of family, community, hard work, and education. As a campo
boy, I also began to see the two faces of America, a place where
Filipinos were at once welcomed and excluded, were considered equal
and were discriminated against. It was a place where the values of
fairness and freedom often fell short when Filipinos put them to
the test.""-- Peter Jamero Peter Jamero's story of hardship and
success illuminates the experience of what he calls the "bridge
generation" -- the American-born children of the Filipinos
recruited as farm workers in the 1920s and 30s. Their experiences
span the gap between these early immigrants and those Filipinos who
owe their U.S. residency to the liberalization of immigration laws
in 1965. His book is a sequel of sorts to Carlos Bulosan's America
Is in the Heart, with themes of heartbreaking struggle against
racism and poverty and eventual triumph. Jamero describes his early
life in a farm-labor camp in Livingston, California, and the path
that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far
beyond Livingston. A longtime community activist and civic leader,
Jamero describes decades of toil and progress before the Filipino
community entered the sociopolitical mainstream. He shares a wealth
of anecdotes and reflections from his career as an executive of
health and human service programs in Sacramento, Washington, D.C.,
Seattle, and San Francisco.
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