Filipinos

  • Reading Filipino American History Month

    As a patron helpfully noted the other day, October is Filipino American History Month! Thanks to that patron’s question, our Filipino American History Month display went up October 1st at the Central Library, and – no surprise – it has been hugely popular. We also published a couple of book lists – one of fiction,… Continue reading

  • Bulosan at 75: Contemporary Filipino/Filipinx Memoirs

    Bulosan at 75: Contemporary Filipino/Filipinx Memoirs

    Carlos Bulosan’s fictionalized memoir America is in the Heart was published 75 years ago this month. The passionate and incendiary account captures the brutality and casual cruelty meted out to Filipino migrants in America, persecution that would continue as the poet and labor organizer was subsequently blacklisted and targeted by the FBI. By the time… Continue reading

  • Intiman’s Dragon Lady and Philippine Migration

    The migration of a family from the Philippines to America has been explored in colorful form by Sara Porkalob in Dragon Lady, a one woman show at the Intiman Theater, closing October 1st. She revisits the arc of Philippine culture and assimilation from her grandmother’s time to her own, as she portrays three generations of her family members.… Continue reading