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Description. This children's book, written by historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Ph.D. and Gayle Romasanta, and richly illustrated by Andre Sibayan, tells the story of often forgotten United Farm Workers Union cofounder, Larry Itliong, his migration to the United States, and his lifelong fight for a farmworkers union. This is the first nonfiction illustrated children's book about Filipino American history and the first book written about Larry Itliong.

Author Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, PhD, is a third-generation Pinay (Filipina American) born and raised in Stockton, California, and the descendant of farmworkers and teachers. She received a BA in history and an MA in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and a doctorate degree in American history from Stanford University. Before her untimely passing on August 10, 2018, she was a professor in the department of history at San Francisco State University, a co-founder of Little Manila Rising in Stockton and a board member and National Scholar of the Filipino American National Historical Society. She is the author of several articles, essays, poems, and books, including "Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipino American Community in Stockton, California" (Duke University Press, 2013) and the first book about Larry Itliong, "Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong" (Bridge and Delta Publishing, 2018).

Author Gayle Romasanta was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in Stockton, California. She is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts writing program at California College of the Arts. Her work as a writer and editor has spanned over 20 years, with her work published in newspapers, literary journals, magazines, and books. She founded Kappa Psi Epsilon sorority, a Filipino culture-based organization, over 20 years ago with chapters statewide at UCLA, UC Davis, CSU Long Beach, CSU Sacramento, and San Francisco State University. She is also the author of the English and Tagalog children's book, "Beautiful Eyes" (Meritage Press, 2012). Currently she is the publisher/owner of Bridge and Delta Publishing, an independent publishing house focused on Filipino American storytelling.

​ Illustrator Andre Sibayan: Andre Sibayan is an illustrator and designer, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has been featured in major national and international magazines, retail brands, kids apparel, and various food, beverage, and hospitality branding projects. Growing up on comics, anime, and Saturday morning cartoons has given him an affinity for creating art for the young and the young at heart.

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Description. This children's book, written by historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Ph.D. and Gayle Romasanta, and richly illustrated by Andre Sibayan, tells the story of often forgotten United Farm Workers Union cofounder, Larry Itliong, his migration to the United States, and his lifelong fight for a farmworkers union.

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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Classics of Asian American Literature)

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Amazon.com: America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Classics of Asian American Literature): 9780295993539: Carlos Bulosan, Alquizola, Marilyn C., Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo: Books

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Resources to Teach Filipin@_x Students in Hawaiʻi’s K-12 Classrooms

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Mabuhay With Aloha - The Filipino American Experience in Hawaii [2006]

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"This issue of the Filipinos in Hawaii is in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Filipino immigration to Hawaii. It represents the second milestone in being the second issue of Social Process in Hawaii which focuses with rich description and analysis of the experience of Filipino immigrants and their descendants in the creation of identity, community, and participation in Hawaii, in impacting upon the region of origin, and upon the larger Hawaii and American society." -from the Foreword

This volume is a collection of articles on various aspects of the Filipino American community in Hawaii. It was published in commemoration of the ninetieth anniversary of Filipino immigration to Hawaii.

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Filipino American History, Identity and Community in Hawaii

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"This issue of the Filipinos in Hawaii is in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Filipino immigration to Hawaii. It represents the second milestone in being the second issue of Social Process in Hawaii which focuses with rich description and analysis of the experience of Filipino immigrants and their descendants in the creation of identity,...

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Cora Cooks Pancit [Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, Kristi Valiant, Kristi Valiant] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Cora Cooks Pancit

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Educational Perspectives Journal of the College of Education/University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa-Tinalak Edition "Woven Dreams: Threading Filipino Educational Praxis"

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Educational Perspectives Journal of the College of Education/University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa-Tinalak Edition "Woven Dreams: Threading Filipino Educational Praxis"

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Awards and Recognition: * Best Book Award in the Social Sciences, Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American Studies, 2018 Filipino identity in transition in contemporary Hawai'i Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, Building Filipino Hawai'i 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.

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Watch Mele Huliāmahi, Episode 4, hosted by Alaka'i Lastimado and Lance D Collins featuring music from the album Kāwili, a musical project that reinterprets traditional Philippine folksongs as Hawaiian mele, re-envisioning the encounter between Filipino and Hawaiian cultures, peoples, identities and languages in Hawai'i. Through the feelings and experiences evoked in mele, the collection of songs exposes the unseen boundaries of Filipino and Hawaiian culture in Hawaiʻi — much of those boundaries a result of plantation-era racial policies that sought to divide working people and erase Indigenous society. The Kāwili project strives to provide a space in which these boundaries are transformed into bridges, in which Filipino and Hawaiian hopes and goals can align in a place-based mentality. Episode 4 features musical performances by Keauhou, Ei Nei, Jeff Au Hoy, Kalena Delima and Kalaʻe Parish, Hoʻopono Wong, the Punua ʻOhana, and Eugene Tunac Marquez. #melehuliamahi #alohaaina #kawili
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Presented by Clement Bautista  and Gina Bautista of the Filipino-American Historical Society

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Mālama Our History  Filipino American Historical Center of Hawaiʻi

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The Filipino-American Historical Society of Hawai'i (FAHSOH) normally coordinates several activities promoting Filipino American history throughout the year, as well as commemorating Hawaii's official recognition of Filipino American History Month (FAHM) in October. Recognized on the U.S. continent for several years, FAHM became officially recognized in Hawai'i in 2008 with the passing of legislation introduced by State Representative Joey Manahan (Kalihi).

Due to the uncertainties of public gatherings, FAHSOH has not scheduled any public exhibits or face-to-face presentations for 2020. As time permits, presentations of previous exhibits and projects will be prepared and uploaded for online viewing. These online presentations, as well as access to our digital archives, will be available on our digital archives website, eFIL: Filipino Digital Archives and History Center of Hawaii.

New online exhibits currently being prepared for our digital archives website include the following:

"Makibaka: Huwag Matakot!" (Struggle: Do Not Be Afraid) (2019)

"Makibaka: Huwag Matakot!" was the rallying cry for a group of local-born and immigrant Filipinos threatened with eviction from their Waipahu homes. First presented in 2019 Johnny Verzon's documentary presents this 30-year struggle by Ota Camp residents and community supporters to gain the right to own their homes and maintain their community.

Loyalty and Valor: Hawaii's Filipino and Filipino American Soldiers (2018)

Our WWII exhibit covers the participation of Filipinos in the Philippine Campaign, especially as part of the First and Second Filipino Regiments, and the crucial role Filipinos and Filipino Americans played in liberating the Philippines from Imperial Japan's occupation. Assembled a part of the 2018 Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Filipino WWII veterans, "Loyalty and Valor" is not only a testament to the heroics and sacrifices of Filipinos and Filipino Americans but also, once again, to promises made and not kept by the United States. Funded, in part, by the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project.

Sakadas and Soldiers: Hawaii's Filipino Americans in WWI (2017)

Our WWI exhibit describes the historically-neglected experiences of Filipino plantation workers who volunteered to defend Hawaii during WWI. Over 4000 Filipinos were recruited to serve in the Hawaiian National Guard in the lead up to and during the war. Their experiences, contribution and legacy have been overlooked by historians, for their story illustrates the first time promises were made and not kept by the United States and Hawaii Territorial governments.

Building upon the enthusiastic response from 2013's FilAm HistoryFest 2013: Filipino Martial Arts in Hawaii, FAHSOH received a funding from the Hawaii Council for the Humanities to produce a video documentary on Hawaii masters of Filipino martial arts. Included in this project are oral histories of eskrima masters and displays of the martial arts styles associated and perpetuated by the schools.

A Hawaii Masters of Eskrima DVD is being distributed to libraries and is available to the general public. For more information, send email to: fahsoh808@gmail.com.

FAHSOH continues to plan new exhibits and projects during this time, so please come back to this webpage or to our digital archives website for further updates. We wish everyone good health and encourage practicing recommended safety guidelines for yourself, your family and your community. We will get through this pandemic but only by acting as a community.

On going from December 11, 2011

Filipino Community Center, Waipahu, Oahu.

FAHSOH member Clement Bautista, administrator of eFIL: Filipino Digital Archives of Hawaii, assembled a traveling exhibit on Philippine komiks entitled, Philippine Komiks: Creating and Reflecting Filipino Sensibilities. The exhibit explores the formal constructs of komiks and how they communicate through their structural features. From the earliest known komiks created by Philippine national hero, Jose P. Rizal, to contemporary variations of the superwoman Darna, Filipino notions of time, place, personhood and hierarchy are created and reflected. By examining komiks within the Philippine context, as an activity of objectified reflection, this project will attempt to present a more generalized approach to understanding the comics phenomena that continually captives our society. Funded, in part, by the Hawaii Council for the Humanities. Go to Philippine Komiks exhibit webpage: [click here].

Exhibit previously on display at Hamilton Library Asian Collection (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and the Hawaii State Library (Honolulu).

Coverage of FAHSOH activities in other years:

Updates of FAHSOH's digital archive project and preservation resources are available on the eFIL website. [link]

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The "Young Kings of Kalihi": Boys and Bikes in Hawaiʻi's Urban Ahupuaʻa

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Pedagogy of the Plate: Serving Up Filipino & Filipino American Foodways in Hawaiʻi

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Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader

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Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader [Ku, Robert Ji-Song, Manalansan, Martin F., Mannur, Anita] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader

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Nakem! 10 Things You Should Know When Teaching Filipino & Filipino American History in Hawaiʻi

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Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA (Food in Asia and the Pacifi)

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California roll, Chinese take-out, American-made kimchi, dogmeat, monosodium glutamate, SPAM-all are examples of what Robert Ji-Song Ku calls "dubious" foods. Strongly associated with Asian and Asian American gastronomy, they are commonly understood as ersatz, depraved, or simply bad. In Dubious Gastronomy, Ku contends that these foods share a spiritual fellowship with Asians in the United States in that the Asian presence, be it culinary or corporeal, is often considered watered-down, counterfeit, or debased manifestations of the "real thing." The American expression of Asianness is defined as doubly inauthentic-as insufficiently Asian and unreliably American when measured against a largely ideological if not entirely political standard of authentic Asia and America. By exploring the other side of what is prescriptively understood as proper Asian gastronomy, Ku suggests that Asian cultural expressions occurring in places such as Los Angeles, Honolulu, New York City, and even Baton Rouge are no less critical to understanding the meaning of Asian food-and, by extension, Asian people-than culinary expressions that took place in Tokyo, Seoul, and Shanghai centuries ago. In critically considering the impure and hybridized with serious and often whimsical intent, Dubious Gastronomy argues that while the notion of cultural authenticity is troubled, troubling, and troublesome, the apocryphal is not necessarily a bad thing: The dubious can be and is often quite delicious.

Dubious Gastronomy overlaps a number of disciplines, including American and Asian American studies, Asian diasporic studies, literary and cultural studies, and the burgeoning field of food studies. More importantly, however, the book fulfills the critical task of amalgamating these areas and putting them in conversation with one another. Written in an engaging and fluid style, it promises to appeal a wide audience of readers who seriously enjoys eating-and reading and thinking about-food.

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Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA (Food in Asia and the Pacific)

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Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA (Food in Asia and the Pacific) - Kindle edition by Ku, Robert Ji-Song. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

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Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality Under American Rule

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Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality Under American Rule - Kindle edition by Orquiza, René Alexander D.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality Under American Rule.

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Hawaii Filipinas Favorite Recipes [Filipino Women's League] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hawaii Filipinas Favorite Recipes

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Cook Real Hawai’i: A Cookbook [Simeon, Sheldon, Snyder, Garrett] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Cook Real Hawai’i: A Cookbook

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Compoc 10 things to remember about Filipinx History in Hawaii

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This is an excellent book on Filipino cooking, and the cultural associations and history in various food traditions. The Philippines has many cross-cultural influences and it's interesting to have a knowledgable writer walk the reader through pancit coming from Chinese influence (noodle dish) and why it's a common birthday food (noodles are eaten for luck and long life in Chinese culture), and the variety of foods eaten at Noche Buena (the traditional Christmas Eve midnight feast Filipinos eat), the appearance of certain food in Filipino literature, etc. It will certainly make you hungry! Well written, I highly recommend it.

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Tikim: Essays on Philippine food and culture

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Tikim: Essays on Philippine food and culture [Fernandez, Doreen] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tikim: Essays on Philippine food and culture

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Nakem! Using Family Photographs in Historical Writing Projects

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ULAM: Main Dish is the first food documentary following the rise of the Filipino food movement via the chefs crossing over to the center of the American table.

It is the first Filipino food documentary to receive worldwide distribution with Gunpowder & Sky, and is now available on all traditional streaming platforms.

Directed and Written By: Alexandra Cuerdo Produced By: Alexandra Cuerdo, John Floresca & Rey Cuerdo Executive Producers: Paul Puzon & Mia Manlunas Cinematography By: John Floresca Edited By: Tayler Braasch Music By: Stephen Spies Sound Mixing By: Michael Mendoza

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Alvin Cailan: Egglsut, The Usual, AMBOY, Unit 120 Nicole Ponseca & Miguel Trinidad: Maharlika, Jeepney, Tita Baby's Romy Dorotan & Amy Besa: Purple Yam, Purple Yam Malate Johneric Concordia & Christine Araquel-Concordia: The Park's Finest Charles Olalia: Ricebar, Ma'am Sir Chase Valencia & Chad Valencia: LASA Andre Guerrero: The Oinkster, Maximiliano, The Little Bear

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ULAM: Main Dish is the first food documentary following the rise of the Filipino food movement via the chefs crossing over to the center of the American table.

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Memories of Philippine Kitchens [Besa, Amy, Dorotan, Romy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Memories of Philippine Kitchens

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"Extraordinary. . . . I Am A Filipino is not only a guide on how to cook like a Filipino; it is also a guide through the Philippines, its history, and its culture."
-Saveur

"An exuberant gastronomic manifesto. . . . A brilliant cookbook that doubles as an important work of cultural scholarship."
-The New Yorker, The Best Food Books of 2018

"A deeply researched and important work."
-Chicago Tribune, Our 10 favorite cookbooks of 2018

"I cracked open this book knowing very little about Filipino food, and now it's all I can think about. That's the power of a good cookbook: It can take a cuisine that's unfamiliar and-through storytelling, technical education, gorgeous photography and killer recipes-transform it into a passion.
-Houston Chronicle, The Best Cookbooks of 2018

"Recipes run the gamut from comforting. . . to piquant . . . [to] haunting."
-The New York Times, Best Cookbooks of Fall 2018

"Part cookbook, part manifesto, Nicole Ponseca wants to change the conversation around Filipino food. For Filipino readers, the book is a statement of pride in Filipino identity and culinary heritage and for those still learning about the cuisine, the book is an excellent course in the flavors that ground it and how to bring them into your home. For the latter group, don't skip the book's Filipino 101, which grounds cooks in the essential methods and ingredients of this complex and intensely flavorful cuisine."
-Food & Wine, The Best Cookbooks Coming Out This Fall

"A great guide to both the subtleties and history of the food, and the dishes themselves. From pancit and adobo to chorizo burgers and jackfruit ice cream, this book demonstrates the delicious mash-up of recipes that define the vibrant cuisine."
-Los Angeles Times

"This cookbook offers modern Filipino recipes that capture the bright, tangy, savory, and spice essence of the country's food, which reflects an array of influences from Chinese, to Middle Eastern, to Spanish, Mexican, and even American. Learn to make fried street snacks like ukoy, tender adobos, and bright seafood."
-Epicurious

"Vividly written and photographed, I Am A Filipino and This Is How We Cook is more than a cookbook. It's a passageway into a misunderstood cuisine as complex as its country's turbulent history, whose time in the spotlight has finally come."
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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I Am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook [Ponseca, Nicole, Trinidad, Miguel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. I Am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook

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This work considers the potential of photographs for orienting in a critical direction the scope, questions and interests of the disciplinary conventions of the field of educational inquiry. Visual objects may help illuminate broader socio-historical events and logics that are deeply entwined with education yet remain marginal to or "outside" of what constitutes its domain of study. In this work photographic images are treated as resources for re-visioning the founding disciplinary objects of educational studies by reorienting its proper objects of study, traditional archives, persistent categories, frames of reference, and accepted portals of research and inquiry. A theoretic framing shapes the question taken up in this work, "How might an engagement with photo-archives open new horizons in the study of education from a postfoundationalist, multi-theoretic and cross-disciplinary perspective?" The author constructs a rather unconventional vantage point to explore this question that opens on to the discursive spaces of three photographs made of three women in the years 1897, 1949, and 1966. The photographs are analysed from three theoretic approaches. First, it is indicated how each photographic image not only marks a relationship to the past, the present, and the future but to the rules and conventions of photographic practices. These particular images give an account of what both persists and exceeds the photographic image, and permit to rewrite the bodies and lives pictured. Second, the subject matter of each photographic image while singular and local bears witness to the complex network of racial, patriarchal and colonial logics and their profound imbrication with a "technically mediated inscription." For all their singularity the photographs cannot but evoke their relation to the deeply historical character of photography. Finally, the photographs make possible an account of broader occurrences, subterranean histories, contexts, and differently situated experiences that illuminate, much like the principle of montage, a sequence of overlapping events crosscutting with one another consequently throwing open the possibility of responding to and transforming the histories and archives we are given.

This book 'Pedagogies of the Image' is a winner of the 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award

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Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands

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Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands [Arnold Hiura] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands

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The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage (A Kolowalu Book)

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The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage (A Kolowalu Book) [Laudan, Rachel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage (A Kolowalu Book)

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Mari J. Matsuda, Voices of America: Accent, Antidiscrimination Law, and a Jurisprudence for the Last Reconstruction, 100 Yale L.J. (1991).
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Empire of Funk: Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/o America gives long overdue attention to the most popular cultural art form practiced by recent generations of Filipina/o American youth. A pioneering work, the anthology features the voices of artists, scholars, and activists to begin a dialogue on Filipina/o American youth culture and its relationship to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. The text also offers the opportunity to question the future of Hip Hop itself. Chapters in Empire of Funk explore Filipina/o American Hip Hop aesthetics, community-building, the geography of Hip Hop in Filipina/o America, sexuality and power, activism and praxis, visual culture, and navigating the Hip Hop industry. This text gives readers a thoughtful introduction to an often-overlooked aspect of American society and culture. It can be used in courses dealing with race and ethnicity, American youth culture, popular culture in America, and immigrant communities.

Mark R. Villegas is a poet, filmmaker, blogger, and Ph.D. candidate in Culture and Theory at the University of California, Irvine. He is a navy brat who grew up in Yokosuka, Japan; Pascagoula, Mississippi; Long Beach, California; and Jacksonville, Florida.

DJ Kuttin' Kandi was born and raised in Queens, NY, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished female DJs in the world. She is also a writer, spoken word poet, theater performer, educator, Hip Hop Feminist, and community organizer. She is a member of DJ team champions the 5th Platoon, co-founder and DJ for the all female Hip-Hop group Anomolies, co-founder of the famed NY monthly open mic nights "Guerrilla Words" and co-founder of the coalition R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop (Representing Education, Activism & Community through Hip Hop). She currently resides in Chula Vista, CA, where she works at UC San Diego's Women's Center.

Dr. Roderick N. Labrador is an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His research and community work focuses on race, ethnicity, class, culture, language, migration, education, hip hop, and cultural production in Hawai'i, the US, and the Philippines.

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Empire of Funk: Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/O America

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Nearly one in four persons in Hawai'i is of Filipino heritage. Representing one-fifth of the state's workforce, Filipinos have been in Hawai'i for more than a century, turning the rough and raw materials of sugar and pineapple into billion-dollar commodities. This book traces a history from 1946-the last year that sakadas (plantation workers) were imported from the Philippines-to the centennial year of their settlement in Hawai'i. Filipinos are central to much that has been built and cherished in the state, including the agricultural industry, tourism, military presence, labor movements, community activism, politics, education, entertainment, and sports.

Theodore S. Gonzalves is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His works include Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists and The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora. Roderick N. Labrador is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He writes about and teaches courses on Filipino Americans and Filipinos in Hawai'i.

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Theodore S. Gonzalves and Roderick N. Labrador

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Pan de Sal Saves the Day: A Filipino Children's Story

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Pan de Sal Saves the Day: A Filipino Children's Story - Kindle edition by Olizon-Chikiamco,Norma, Salvatus, Mark. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Pan de Sal Saves the Day: A Filipino Children's Story.

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Amazon.com: Rolling the R's (KAYA PRESS): 9781885030511: Linmark, R. Zamora: Books

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Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities Nakem! Workshop Feedback Questionnaire

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Please answer the questions below, in your opinion. One is the least satisfactory and five is the most satisfactory. Your feedback is extremely valuable and allows the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities (HCH) to continue to improve while providing quality workshops. Thank you for your time!

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Institute Structure

The Institute will be organized around three phases: curriculum-making, curriculum- exchanging, and curriculum-applying. During curriculum-making, professional learning communities composed of representatives from each of the partners will collaborate to develop curriculum for the Institute. Teachers enrolled in the Institute will then have the opportunity to experience the curriculum and begin exchanging ideas on how to implement it in their classroom. Finally, teachers will apply the curriculum in their classroom with guided assistance and reflection.

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Filipino American Education | We must stand in unity to uplift and move forward the educational achievement of our Filipino American students.

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The Institute will be organized around three phases: curriculum-making, curriculum- exchanging, and curriculum-applying. During curriculum-making, professional learning communities composed of representatives from each of the partners will collaborate to develop curriculum for the Institute. Teachers enrolled in the Institute will then have the opportunity to experience the curriculum and begin exchanging ideas on how to implement it in their classroom.

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Understanding Filipinos and Racism in Hawaiʻi: History and Experience 090120

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Espiritu - Positively No Filipinos Allowed

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IP360_Philippine Cookery from Heart to Platter

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Home Remedies is a salve made from organic rhythms and forms mixed with locally sourced images, characters, and voices from Hawaiʻi and the Philippines. As if by poetic magic, Amalia Bueno transforms coconut oil, paper seeds, and 500 lumpia into healing prayers. Apply these poems generously, dear reader, because they have the power to soothe our displaced, migratory, aging, forgotten, and incarcerated bodies.
-Craig Santos Perez, author, from unincorporated territory [guma']

Amalia Bueno is a benevolent panopticon of a poet. She turns her gaze to characters (in all senses of the term) in the Philippines and Hawaiʻi. These poems are playful and exuberant. But the centerpiece of this collection is a sequence of documentary poems about incarcerated women. Bueno's empathetic ear hears them counting the time they're spending in prisons, often far from their homes in the Islands. Home may be a remedy, but where is it when you're displaced? Of "Moringa Oreifera," a Himalayan plant that grows in Hawaiʻi, she writes: "I harvest your body / and see our kin, the kind that grows // overseas, placed and displaced only / to root again among ourselves." For this poet, "root" is as much verb as noun, but both find themselves firmly attached to earth, wherever that earth may be.
-Susan M. Schultz, author, Dementia Blog, editor and publisher, Tinfish Press

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Home Remedies
by Amalia Bueno

$14.49, paper

Born in Manila, Philippines and raised in Honolulu, Amalia Bueno is an educator and writer. Her poetry and fiction have been published in various journals, anthologies and magazines, most recently in TAYO Literary Magazine and Bamboo Ridge. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. This is her first chapbook
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

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14.49 Home Remedies is a salve made from organic rhythms and forms mixed with locally sourced images, characters, and voices from Hawaiʻi and the Philippines. As if by poetic magic, Amalia Bueno transforms coconut oil, paper seeds, and 500 lumpia into healing prayers.

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This book solidifies Lyz Soto as one of the most profound and innovative poets in the Pacific. She explores the themes of motherhood, geography, cultural heritage, and love using an exciting range of lyric, visual, narrative, and avant-garde styles. Throughout, Soto maps and translates the calculus of genealogy in order to chart a path to that fragile place we call home.
-Craig Santos Perez
This collection is an important body of work. By body I mean just that. Lyz's poems enable a multitude of skins and identities to dance upon the bones of a mother. The poems in faded print read like prayers by the reader, the quiet questions and hopeful calls of a woman, of a mother. Pressing into the ideas of what makes once exotic that is named exotic? Her poems challenge the space on the page with mathematics and geographic playgrounds, much like how only a child of diaspora can do, challenging the edges and fringes. Questioning the borders. Figuring out the silences. But always mother, "I am still Mommy when no one else is listening".
-Grace Teuila Taylor
Poet Lyz Soto has more than five senses-her heart seems to have more than four chambers. Her revelations are microcosmic and galactic, utterly human and yet slightly more magic than that. This book is the work of a seer, a champion of reality, pain, love, and beauty, and how they constitute each other. Her poetry shows us how to live truth by feeling and showing all of the ways it speaks us, speaks through us-even through our differences and our distances. Soto reveals both the minute and the galactic. I trust this book, this mind, this imagination, this world she's made.
-Brenda Shaughnessy

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Lyz Soto is a performance poet of Tagalog, Ilocano, Hakka, German, English, French, Cherokee, and Spanish descent. She is Co-Founder of Pacific Tongues and working towards a PhD in English at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her poem "American Homelands" won the Ian MacMillan poetry prize in 2014.

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An emerging voice in local literature, Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo translates his feelings into his poetry, reinterpreting his life experiences and working diligently to maintain authenticity. His poems are uniquely provocative, often sad in depicting his journey from an abusive childhood in the Philippines, through the trials of an overseas Filipino worker enduring and witnessing...

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One such author writing outside of mainstream market expectations is the poet
and interdisciplinary artist Maiana Minahal, former director of UC
Berkeley's Poetry for the People. Her second book,Legend Sondayo,
has just been released by Berkeley-based Civil Defense Poetry. I just
picked up Minahal's pocket-sized book, which I've been carrying around
in my purse, and reading in snatches. This is a good way to read a book
of poems, savoring them one at a time, appreciating each poem's form,
density, and space. She writes prose poem and free verse as adeptly as
haiku and hay(na)ku sequence. Here is an excerpt from "stolen/kali":

As you may see, Minahal's poems are concrete
and active with a woman kicking ass (kali is a Filipino martial art).
Read this excerpt aloud and you can hear its musical staccato. The
woman's movement is both dance and combat.

I enjoy Minahal's
poetry because, apart from being precisely crafted and lively, it's
subversive. It literally subverts an old Filipino folktale of the woman
Sondayo, who battles the wind goddess, because the wind goddess stole
her husband. In Minahal's retelling, she creates an urban and
contemporary Sondayo: "Times have changed, so now I can tell you what I
couldn't back then: I fought that wind goddess for my wife, not my
husband. In those days, we didn't have all your genderqueer and
polyamory or trans tweeners, flaming and flaunting. (More power to
them!)"

Writing outside of mainstream expectations is also writing against their expectations. It's a thriving and necessary bottom-up approach which is familiar to those of us who work with community arts organizations. That said, do pick up your copy of Legend Sondayo and show your support for the independent publishers bringing us these necessary voices.

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Hi all. This is my first post to the Hyphen blog, so here is a very brief introduction. I'm Barbara Jane Reyes, and I am a Pinay poet and author based in Oakland. I blog regularly on poetics and the American poetry industry.

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Flippin': Filipinos on America [Asian American Writers' Workshop]

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Maribel Apuya on Her Documentary, "A Sakada Story"

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The long-simmering feud between talented high-school senior Ben, who has rejected his Filipino heritage, and his immigrant father Roland threatens to boil over and ruin the 18th birthday party of Ben's sister Rose. But to Ben's surprise, his sister's celebration challenges his sense of misplaced identity and the way he regards his father and grandfather. In one night, Ben faces the true nature of his relationships with his family, his friends, and himself. - Anonymous

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The Debut: Directed by Gene Cajayon. With Dante Basco, Jayson Schaal, Brian Card, Mindy Spence. A young man struggles with his desire to study art when his family thinks he's headed for premedical studies. Conflicts between Filipino traditions and expectations vs. personal dreams in the contemporary world erupt at his sister's debut.

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Ch. 1 From Revolution to Annexation_Historical Overview of the Philippines

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Ch.2 Great Expectations_The Plantation System in Hawaii

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Ch. 3 Lessons in Organization_Filipinos and the Labor Movement

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Ch. 6 Sources of Strength_Philippine Languages in Hawaii

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Nakem! Filipino and Filipino American History, Culture, and Food Workshop Questionnaire

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What kids should know about Filipino food book

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What Kids Should Know About Filipino Food

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Food is not just what eat, it is what makes us unique and a people. Some have called it our “edible identity”. In our food, we find trace...

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Leche: A Novel - Kindle edition by Linmark, R. Zamora. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Leche: A Novel.

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Mostly, I liked this book. Jessica Hagedorn writes a sharp satirical sentence, has a wealth of knowledge of "classic" and "campy" American popular culture, and applies both of these skills naughtily/impactfully. I like that Dogeaters tells the story of an identity- and power-fraught nation (the Philippines) allegorically through the daily struggles of its own identity- and power-fraught inhabitants (cross-dressers, nationalist politicians who buy European fashions, etc.). Some of the characters...more

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Mostly, I liked this book. Jessica Hagedorn writes a sharp satirical sentence, has a wealth of knowledge of "classic" and "campy" American popular culture, and applies both of these skills naughtily/impactfully. I like that Dogeaters tells the story of an identity- and power-fraught nation (the Philippines) allegorically through the daily struggles of its own identity- and power-fraught inhabitants (cross-dressers, nationalist politicians who buy European fashions, etc.).

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how stupid am I for not reading this before?! super stupid! It was awesome.
Highlights for me:

-"Common Scents" was hilarious.

-"Hate" was gratifying.

-The line, "This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma" collapsed the chest of both my childhood self as well as my parental self.

-The dialog in "Lost and Found" with the arrow pointing to one woman, reading "super dramatical...more

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how stupid am I for not reading this before?! super stupid! It was awesome.Highlights for me: -"Common Scents" was hilarious. -"Hate" was gratifying. -The line, "This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience.

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By: Samantha Chanse (Author) and Matt Huynh (Illustrator)

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By: Rachelle Cruz

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Peasant from the Philippines moves to America, rides freight trains around the country for like 10 years, and thinks in abstract terms about the development of the agrarian labor movement. Interesting from a strictly documentary perspective, but if there was something else going on here, I missed it.

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Peasant from the Philippines moves to America, rides freight trains around the country for like 10 years, and thinks in abstract terms about the development of the agrarian labor movement. Interesting from a strictly documentary perspective, but if there was something else going on here, I missed it.

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What kids should know about Filipino Food

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What kids should know about Filipino Food

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It's a children's book that will make adults do a number of things while they're reading it- nod in approval, smile at a memory, or even laugh out loud. What Kids Should know About Filipino Food, Mama Sita Centennial edition, is the latest in a series of Adarna books that will make Filipinos of any age realize how truly rich and interesting their culinary culture is, and how proud they should be of their rich multi-ethnic heritage.

Culinary historian and author Felice Sta. Maria uses her depth and breadth of knowledge on Filipino food culture to make the subject more digestible and palatable for kids and adults, too. It's light reading but heavy on information- peppered with facts, folklore, trivia and superstitious beliefs. It explores practices in the kitchen, at the table, and anywhere else where food is cooked, served and enjoyed.

Sta. Maria points to ingredients or sources of food derived from the land, air and sea, with colorful illustrations brought to life by young artist Mika Bacani. Sta Maria shares, "I want to emphasize the fundamental inter- relationship between environs and food culture. We need to know that land, water and air must be kept safe so our food will be kept safe, and public health safe."

One chapter describes a Filipino heritage kitchen, where older readers will recognize the banggera, bantalan, garapinyera, gilingan, and kudkuran, to name a few. Another features typical cooking methods employed in and out of the kitchen such as grilling ( ihaw-ihaw), sautéeing ( guisado), boiling ( nilaga), and frying ( prito), followed by a fun feature on street food and panaderia favorites. There's also the Chinoy meryenda spread that tackles all kinds of pancit and other snacks such as siomai, siopao, kikiam, hopia and taho.

What Kids Should Know About Filipino Food is like a mini encyclopedia of everything Pinoys love to cook and eat, making it the perfect gift for anyone interested in Philippine culinary culture.

WHAT KIDS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FILIPINO FOOD is available in leading bookstores.

Source: Lifestyle Asia Magazine, July 2017

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One of the projects by the Mama Sita Foundation is in Dingalan, Aurora. Dingalan can be considered the gateway to Central Luzon from the Pacific Ocean across the Sierra Madre Mountains. It is located at the eastern end of the government's Urban Beltway Project running from Subic Freeport through Cla

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Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai’i and the Philippines (Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies)

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Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination-a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawai'i is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military occupation, tourism, food insecurity, high costs of living, and climate change. In this brilliant reinvention of the travel guide, artists, activists, and scholars redirect readers from the fantasy of Hawai'i as a tropical paradise and tourist destination toward a multilayered and holistic engagement with Hawai'i's culture and complex history. The essays, stories, artworks, maps, and tour itineraries in Detours create decolonial narratives in ways that will forever change how readers think about and move throughout Hawai'i.

Contributors. Hōkūlani K. Aikau, Malia Akutagawa, Adele Balderston, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Ellen-Rae Cachola, Emily Cadiz, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar, David A. Chang, Lianne Marie Leda Charlie, Greg Chun, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, S. Joe Estores, Nicholas Kawelakai Farrant, Jessica Ka'ui Fu, Candace Fujikane, Linda H. L. Furuto, Sonny Ganaden, Cheryl Geslani, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, Tina Grandinetti, Craig Howes, Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, Noelle M. K. Y. Kahanu, Haley Kailiehu, Kyle Kajihiro, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Terrilee N. Kekoolani-Raymond, Kekuewa Kikiloi, William Kinney, Francesca Koethe, Karen K. Kosasa, N. Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, Kapulani Landgraf, Laura E. Lyons, David Uahikeaikalei'ohu Maile, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Davianna Pōmaika'i McGregor, Laurel Mei-Singh, P. Kalawai'a Moore, Summer Kaimalia Mullins-Ibrahim, Jordan Muratsuchi, Hanohano Naehu, Malia Nobrega-Olivera, Katrina-Ann R. Kapā'anaokalāokeola Nākoa Oliveira, Jamaica Heolimelekalani Osorio, No'eau Peralto, No'u Revilla, Kalaniua Ritte, Maya L. Kawailanaokeawaiki Saffery, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Noenoe K. Silva, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Stan Tomita, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Wendy Mapuana Waipā, Julie Warech

About the author

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines, also published by Duke University Press.

Hōkūlani K. Aikau is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah and author of A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i.

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Angeles Monrayo (1912-2000) began her diary on January 10, 1924, a few months before she and her father and older brother moved from a sugar plantation in Waipahu to Pablo Manlapit's strike camp in Honolulu.

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This novel about a Filipino American family in Southern California was published by Signal 8 Press in 2011.

During his one and only return visit to the Philippines, Johnny de la Cruz, plagued by a sense of isolation, feels a glimmer of connection to the place of his birth and youth when he sees Bunny Bulong, the hometown Miss Sampaguita of 1946. Johnny succumbs to a quick sexual encounter with the ever attractive and beguiling Bunny. Years later, sick with cancer and faced with the possibility of dying, he regrets that he never had a son-a lack that has distanced him from his daughters and sometimes his wife. Miles away, nineteen-year-old Winston Piña has barely finished eulogizing his recently deceased mother Bunny, when he finds a letter she wrote, but never sent to Johnny de la Cruz, leading him into the lives of the de la Cruz family - a family to which he might or might not belong. The novel explores the ties within family and how circumstances of birth, immigration, and assimilation tug at those ties.
Praise
"This extraordinary novel illustrates a family's long journey toward making peace-with the world, with the family, and with individual selves. Miscolta is a pitch-perfect prose stylist and a passionately empathetic creator: she savors sentence-making and attends to the all-important nuanced moments between people. This chronicle of a family is beautifully observed and heart-rendingly told, and these characters will linger long after you've closed the book. I feel blessed to have met this family and to have made the journey with them."
- Antonya Nelson, author of Bound

" When the de la Cruz Family Danced is my kind of book-characters I fell in love with, prose that made me swoon, dialogue that rang true. Donna Miscolta did something wonderful here: she created a world that I didn't want to leave."
- Noel Alumit, author of Talking to the Moon and Letters to Montgomery Clift

"In her deft debut novel, Donna Miscolta presents a clarifying vision of post-immigration America. Longings acted upon or stifled, secrets disclosed or withheld, connections made or frayed-Miscolta shows that the extended de la Cruz family is a mirror of the things that bind us and keep us apart. When the de la Cruz Family Danced may be one particular family's aching story, but the novel also has a largeness that encompasses the evolving formal history of the novel, the history of family life in America, and the continuing story of how immigrants carry the burdens of the past into the strange present. Miscolta's novel is intricate, tender, and elegantly written-a necessary novel for our times."
- Rick Barot, author of Want

" When the de la Cruz Family Danced introduces a wise, warm, funny and big-hearted writer to the world. This book is a delight."
- Rebecca Brown, author of American Romances

"A smoothly written debut that sways between the Philippines and the U.S., between the present and past, and between the secrets and hard truths of its compelling characters. This is a complex story of immigration and loss that packs an emotional punch."
- Cristina Garcia, author of The Lady Matador's Hotel

"When reading When the de la Cruz Family Danced, you feel like the story is already familiar-not that it's been told before, but that its words have the flow of memory, of having been there standing in the de la Cruz kitchen or sitting at the dinner table where there is the nostalgic talk of family meals, of family tragedies, of the heartfelt things left unsaid that are later recalled or written down in letter sent through the mail or watched in a home movie. We, as readers, aren't a part of this life or this history and yet by reading, we see ourselves just standing at the edge of the frame in a de la Cruz family portrait. We're family."
- Shawn Wong, author of American Knees
Reviews
"Like Clarrisa Dalloway's day, this novel is not about action, but about the measured, interior, often muddy unfolding of daily life, where everything that matters happens. The paternity plot sets things in motion, and Winston's presence challenges old habits and evasions, and offers the de la Cruzes a new lens through which to look at themselves and each other. But the novel turns on Miscolta's careful attention to Johnny and Tessie de la Cruz, and their yearnings."
- Kathryn Hunt, from Raven Chronicles review

"Donna Miscolta has written an amazing novel. It is rich with feeling and thought. I absolutely fell in love with Johnny. Although he was not an easy character to get to know, the process of getting to know him felt real and never like a chore. More like the process we all go through in getting to know a new friend. In fact, all of the characters were very real and acted true to their personalities throughout the story. This was one of those novels I ended up so totally immersed in, that when I had to put the book down, it would take me a minute to reorient myself to reality. I love it when that happens! I laughed out loud, I cried, I fell in love with this family and their friends. Truly a masterpiece."
- Dana, see the complete Let's Book It review

" When the De La Cruz Family Danced is a breathtaking portrayal of longing and loss as one family learns acceptance with each other and with the past. In thoughtful prose, debut novelist Donna Miscolta interlocks the smallest and most delicate stories and phrases with the upmost affection; she is attentive to dialogue as if composing a waltz, "I came to take you dancing, Tessie." A seductive rhythm pulling the reader onto every page."
- Josie E. Davis, see the complete review

"Very good novels operate in a sphere beyond the characters, embedding their story within a time, a place, a culture, and Miscolta honors this tradition. She explores a particular immigrant experience, and the estrangement and rootlessness it can cause. Through this experience, she also comments on the isolation and unfulfilled promise of planned suburban communities in contrast to their messier, evolving urban counterparts. Throughout, there is a suggestion that, in our urge to find something better, we abandon the very things that could make us the most happy, despite our dissatisfaction with them. Miscolta has written a beautifully composed novel of a family in disarray, finally trying to dance its halting way back together."
- Melissa Bashor, see the complete Prime Magazine review

"Though this type of narrative turn can prove unwieldy, Miscolta's delicate prose and mindful style inject a controlled direction that sheds light on each of the characters' peculiarities. They do not simply become foils for or adjuncts to the protagonist. I can only think of them as capillaries-interconnected, each providing others life, yet at the same time needing to flow somewhere else, to be connect to someone else."
- Dinah Roma Sianturi, see the complete Cha: An Asian Literary Journal review

Interviews
Read about the inspiration behind When the de la Cruz Family Danced and other influences in my writing in these interviews: King County Employee News (October 2014), Intermittent Visitors (October 2012), La Coquette Levantine (June 2012), Seattle Wrote (May 2012), ph.d. in creative writing (March 2012), Turning East (January 2012), Fil-Am Fest (September 2011), Freelance and Fiction (July 2011), and First Line (July 2011).

I was interviewed by Janelle So on Kababayan LA, Southern California's only daily Filipino television show.

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Buy the Book: IndieBound, Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-MillionPublished by: Signal 8 PressRelease Date: June 28, 2011Pages: 342ISBN13: 9789881989598 Overview This novel about a Filipino American family in Southern California was published by Signal 8 Press in 2011. During his one and only return visit to the Philippines, Johnny de la Cruz, plagued...

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4.5 stars

Don't ever think that since this is a chikdren's book, the story would be light and fluffy. This pretty much is the opposite.

The story of Nora is such an emotional and inspiring one. She lives in a cemetery with her mother. Both are dealing with grief because of the death of her father. Her struggles only begins there as her mother is a gambler, and that means they're losing more money instead of saving any.

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4.5 stars Don't ever think that since this is a chikdren's book, the story would be light and fluffy. This pretty much is the opposite. The story of Nora is such an emotional and inspiring one. She lives in a cemetery with her mother. Both are dealing with grief because of the death of her father.

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Winner of the 2017 Cades Award for an emerging writer, Christy Passion has set literary Hawaiʻi on its ear with these plain-spoken, understated poems of contemporary hard-luck Island lives. She can bewitch a lurid scene into beauty:

"Fish heads, heads as big as mine,
with their purple red lungs trailing
like party streamers are held up for approval-"

But she doesn't gild human losses and misfortunes, and we feel their weight:

"Because in jail you met Jesus
Because time passes
Because you are his only son

Papa said, Come home."

Her backstory-she is a critical care nurse at The Queen's Medical Center, part Native Hawaiian, from a sprawling local family that reckons its past in terms of losses-may explain the gravity of her work. This isn't art school fancy-dancing, it is masterful, producing a kind of emotional whiplash in almost every poem. Like Philip Levine, who made his early life as a machinist in Detroit factories the bedrock of his engagement, Passion comes at us with quiet, incisive authority. She writes like someone who walks the wards at night.

- HONOLULU Magazine, June 2017

Christy Passion's words glitter like broken glass on the road-beautiful, dangerous, sharp-edged jewels that can draw blood. Her ability to capture complex emotions with everyday images is unrivaled. This isn't hearts-and-flowers poetry. Nor is it angry for the sake of being cool. Her poetry is beautifully wrought with an eye toward form and the guts to take the reader to surprising places. I've used some of these poems in class. The students love her work for its mixture of depth and accessibility and because the poems are so honest and artful. Christy Passion writes about a Hawaiʻi that few others have really captured but that we all can recognize.

- Lee Cataluna, author of FOLKS YOU MEET IN LONGS and THREE YEARS ON DOREEN'S SOFA

Tough and unflinching, compassionate and beautifully crafted, this is a sharp-eyed, singular portrait of an island life. Ms. Passion has a quiver full of arrows aimed straight for the center of your humanity.

- Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, author of HAWAIʻI NEI: ISLAND PLAYS, co-author of HE LEO HOU: A NEW VOICE

STILL OUT OF PLACE by Christy Passion is a powerful collection of poetry that is very much like listening to the best of Bruce Springsteen. It's working class. It resists nostalgia. It shows that there can be a beauty in the everyday pain that blue-collar people endure. We see a Hawaiʻi how it really was. STILL OUT OF PLACE is about things lost and things never gained in the first place.

- Chris McKinney, author of THE TATTOO and BOI NO GOOD

In her collection of poems, Christy Passion writes her way out of darkness, describing with a true poet's eyes all the details of time and place. The poet teaches us that shadows of memory provide temporary solace from the gaping hole that she fills with words chosen with meticulous precision, forming cords of lines and images. My sista's words weave a rope for pulling the self out of the self with incredible artistry and in-your-face truth.

- Lois-Ann Yamanaka, author of SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE PAHALA THEATRE and WILD MEAT AND THE BULLY BURGERS

This captivating collection is the soul of Hawaiʻi and Hawaiians. Every poem in Passion's book is a family member, classmate, friend, or neighbor. I cry-laughed, especially in the poems where I saw myself.

- Kimo Armitage, author of THE HEALERS

Passion is a sensory magician, her words an incantation that manifests all that is darkness and light and broken and beautiful in Hawaiʻi. From drunk uncles planning a robbery, to pulling ginger in Tutu's garden, Passion's ability to mine the depths of fractional moments of time and place, living and dying, and love and regret, elevates her to the top tier of Pacific poets.

- Robert Barclay, author of MELAL: A NOVEL OF THE PACIFIC

With a sober and powerful voice, Christy Passion explores a life lived in Hawaiʻi, a life rich with cultural heritage. Honoring this world, a world of fishermen and glass floaters, old train tracks and Sand Island weekends, these poems are both raw and beautifully crafted. They are love poems, love of home, love of the father, even love of strangers in hospital beds. Passion looks unflinchingly at what is broken in this world and what, happily for all of us, remains.

- Adele Ne Jame, author of THE SOUTH WIND

Forget the travel guides and lies the Tourism Authority tells you about Hawaiʻi. Christy Passion's collection takes us to places that upend fantasies most of us have about paradise. Her scenes are vivid and the odors are indelible-sweat and stagnant water, sweet sour and diesel, tea that will make you live forever, and ripe mangoes sold to Chinatown vendors in exchange for movie tickets. Passion's textures are unforgettable: a patient's voice that sounds like grated ginger, and the coarse sand that shapes our way. For any journey, you need both truth and trust. STILL OUT OF PLACE offers both in great measure.

- Theodore S. Gonzalves, author of THE DAY THE DANCERS STAYED: PERFORMING IN THE FILIPINO/AMERICAN DIASPORA and FILIPINOS IN HAWAIʻI

This collection includes an unforgettable catalog of advice about island life, family, love, and home-that murmur in our hearts that follows us throughout our lives. From a father to his daughter: "Grow teeth where your heart should be." About marriage, a mother tells her child that it's labor and "We get through it tougher. Not shinier." Grief, on the other hand, is like a tartare recipe: "Best served and consumed in small pieces." And when all hope has been exhausted and trust no longer holds weight, we are reminded, once again, that "we are rocks in ruins / rocks can spark or rocks can bludgeon / listen closely daughter / choose bludgeon." Funny, moving, and, like the family in these poems, heartbreaking and fearless, STILL OUT OF PLACE is an impressive debut.

- R. Zamora Linmark, author of THE EVOLUTION OF A SIGH

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