Argentina Hotels Travel - Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
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Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.89921079458
EAN: 9780295986425
ISBN: 0295986425
Label: University of Washington Press
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 331
Publication Date: 2006-07-13
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Studio: University of Washington Press
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'I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference - my family includes 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labour camp. It was as a 'campo' boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. As a campo boy, I also began to see the two faces of America, a place where Filipinos were at once welcomed and excluded, were considered equal and were discriminated against. It was a place where the values of fairness and freedom often fell short when Filipinos put them to the test' - Peter Jamero.Peter Jamero's story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of what he calls the 'bridge generation' - the American-born children of the Filipinos recruited as farm workers in the 1920s and 30s. Their experiences span the gap between these early immigrants and those Filipinos who owe their U.S. residency to the liberalization of immigration laws in 1965. His book is a sequel of sorts to Carlos Bulosan's "America Is in the Heart", with themes of heartbreaking struggle against racism and poverty and eventual triumph. Jamero describes his early life in a farm-labour camp in Livingston, California, and the path that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far beyond Livingston.A long-time community activist and civic leader, Jamero describes decades of toil and progress before the Filipino community entered the socio-political mainstream. He shares a wealth of anecdotes and reflections from his career as an executive of health and human service programs in Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco.
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Summary: A useful book for teachers.
Comment: I found out about this book from my in-laws after they received a signed copy from the author. Peter Jamero attended school with both of them and they considered him and, especially his brother who was their classmate, a friend. My wife borrowed it and read it and thought it was wonderful. She and I are both teachers and his journaling of his experiences in school are very helpful to us because it tells a side of prejudice that we don't get to see. My in-laws described him as a great guy to know and a fun person to be with. We see students who show us their true personalities while they conceal the attacks they receive from others. The reason that I purchased this book from Amazon was based on a conversation with my brother's wife. She is half Mexican and half Filipino and one of the most positive, friendly, hard-working people you could ever know. When I described the book to her, she said that it sounded like her life. I was floored. How could anyone show prejudice towards this wonderful person. This book is great in that it can help the victims of prejudice cope and help the rest of us realize that there are people suffering silently.
This book can serve to alert us to the problem and hopefully, the story of his life will let people see that you can't judge people by their skin color or their ethnicity. The story of Peter's life can show us that his successes are what define him.
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