Building Filipino Hawaii (Asian American Experience) - Softcover

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Labrador, Roderick N.

 
9780252080364: Building Filipino Hawaii (Asian American Experience)

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Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, Roderick Labrador delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity.

In particular, Labrador speaks to the processes of identity making and the politics of representation among immigrant communities striving to resist marginalization in a globalized, transnational era. Critiquing the popular image of Hawai'i as a postracial paradise, he reveals how Filipino immigrants talk about their relationships to the place(s) they left and the place(s) where they've settled, and how these discourses shape their identities. He also shows how the struggle for community empowerment, identity territorialization, and the process of placing and boundary making continue to affect how minority groups construct the stories they tell about themselves, to themselves and others.

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Roderick Labrador is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawai'i. He is the coauthor of Filipinos in Hawai'i, 1946–2006 and coeditor of Empire of Funk: Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/o America.

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ISBN 10:  0252038800 ISBN 13:  9780252038808
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2015
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