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Little Manila Is in the Heart
The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California
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Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
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English
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2013
About this book
A history tracing the growth of Stockton, California's Filipina/o American community, the birth and eventual destruction of the neighborhood of Little Manila, and recent efforts to remember and preserve it.
Author / Editor information
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon is Associate Professor of History at San Francisco State University.
Reviews
"Little Manila Is in the Heart is a triumph of Filipina/o American history and American studies. There is no other scholarly analysis of the dynamic and vibrant Filipina/o American experience central to the development of Stockton's urban life and the larger San Joaquin Delta, a key area of California's agribusiness. Moreover, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon is a masterful storyteller. She draws on oral histories to illuminate the pain and joy of building, sustaining, losing, and attempting to preserve Little Manila in Stockton, weaving in with great finesse family history, archival research, and her own activism on behalf of Little Manila's preservation."—Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
"Offering new and exciting insights into the Filipina/o American experience, Little Manila Is in the Heart is a painstakingly researched history of the Filipina/o American community in Stockton. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon connects that local history to national and global phenomena; examines in depth the roles of gender, religion, and community organizing within Stockton's Filipina/o American community; and carefully documents the role of development on an urban Asian American community over the past several decades."—Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony, author of American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919–1941
“[An] engaging account of the Filipino American experience in the 20th century. . . . It expands and deepens our knowledge of that past beyond Bulosan’s riveting account of the Filipino American experience in the first half of the 20th Century. Of course, it helps that Dawn Mabalon is retelling the history of her own family and her own community.”
-- Benjamin Pimentel Phillipine Daily Inquirer
“Mabalon’s text is not merely a history of a community, but a study of how that community has been remembered and forgotten, given the redevelopment and gentrification policies that demolished most of Little Manila’s buildings after the 1960s.”
-- Christopher Patterson International Examiner
“Mabalon’s work reminds us of the precious importance of engaging in conversation with our elders. As a fellow third generation Filipina American, almost twenty years older than the author, I had often felt alone in seeking out the stories of my grandparents and ancestors, then writing about them in order to keep them alive for all generations. Mabalon—author, professor, and community activist—sets the bar for projects such as these to new heights. Justly so, because ‘A community worth saving is a community worth writing about. And vice versa.’”
-- Lisa Suguitan Melnick Positively Filipino blog
“This extensive book has valuable information for multiple audiences, including ethnic studies academics, students of ethnic studies, and general readers interested in labor, gender, intergenerational relations, urban studies, race, and the everyday lives of Filipina/os in the twentieth century.”
-- JoAnna Poblete Journal of American History
“I expect that Little Manila will become a staple in courses focused upon histories of California, immigration, and labor.”
-- Allison Varzally American Historical Review
"By acknowledging Filipino community formation in a context of intercultural relations while also privileging uniquely Filipina/o stories, the author effectively weaves oral accounts into her narrative, offering a human dimension to the urban history of Little Manila that would otherwise remain lost in the past."
-- Naomi Alisa Calnitsky Oral History Review
"Little Manila Is in the Heart is a much-loved masterpiece of ethnography, history and activism all at once, centering on the titular Little Manila of downtown Stockton, California. Mabalon’s writing is as sharp as it is loving and accessible, and the way she traces the community’s origins to its contemporary struggles against gentrification could be fruitfully linked to similar struggles around the country, particularly the rapidly changing Bay Area. Rest in power, Dawn."
-- Elaine Castillo Electric Lit
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION Remembering Little Manila
1 - PART I. PUTTING DOWN ROOTS: 1898-1940s
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1. From the Provinces to the Delta
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2. Toiling in the “Valley of Opportunity”
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3. Making a Filipina/o American World in Stockton
101 - PART II. GROWING A COMMUNITY: 1930S–1960s
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4. Women, Families, and the Second Generation
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5. Searching for Spiritual Sustenance
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6. The Watershed of World War II
217 - PART III. DESTRUCTION AND DISPLACEMENT: 1950s–2010
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7. Losing El Dorado Street
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8. Building a Filipina/o American Movement in Stockton
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EPILOGUE Coming Home to Little Manila
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
June 17, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780822395744
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
464
Other:
51 photographs, 7 maps
eBook ISBN:
9780822395744
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
