The Filipino American population in the U.S. is expected to reach
more than two million by the next century. Yet many Filipino
Americans contend that years of formal and covert exclusion from
mainstream political, social, and economic institutions on the
basis of their race have perpetuated racist stereotypes about them,
ignored their colonial and immigration history, and prevented them
from becoming fully recognized citizens of the nation. Locating
Filipino Americans shows how Filipino Americans counter exclusion
by actively engaging in alternative practices of community
building.
Locating Filipino Americans, an ethnographic study of Filipino
American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego, presents a
multi-disciplinary cultural analysis of the relationship between
ethnic identity and social space. Author Rick Bonus argues that
alternative community spaces enable Filipino Americans to respond
to and resist the ways in which the larger society has historically
and institutionally rendered them invisible, silenced, and
racialized. Bonus focuses on the "Oriental" stores, the social
halls and community centers, and the community newspapers to
demonstrate how ethnic identities are publicly constituted and
communities are transformed. Delineating the spaces formed by
diasporic consciousness, Bonus shows how community members
appropriate elements from their former homeland and from their new
settlements in ways defined by their critical stances against
racism, homogenization, complete assimilation, and exclusionary
citizenship. Locating Filipino Americans is one of the few books
that offers a grounded approach to theoretical analyses of
ethnicity and contemporary culture in the U.S.
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