Little Manila Is in the Heart The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California

Name: Little Manila Is in the Heart The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California
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ISBN: 9780822353393

ISBN-10: 0822353393

ISBN-13: 9780822353393

Edition: 2013

Authors: Dawn Bohulano Mabalon

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In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union halls, and barbershops. Little Manila was home to the largest community of Filipinas/os outside of the Philippines until the neighborhood was decimated by urban redevelopment in the 1960s. Narrating a history spanning much of the twentieth century, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon traces the growth of Stockton's Filipina/o American…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.33" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction Remembering Little Manila



Putting Down Roots: 1898-1940s



From the Provinces to the Delta: Life on the Eve of Emigration to the United States



Toiling in the "Valley of Opportunity"



Making a Filipina/o American World in Stockton



Growing A Community: 1930s-1960s



Women, Families, and the Second Generation



Searching for Spiritual Sustenance



The Watershed of World War II



Destruction and Displacement: 1950s-2010



Losing El Dorado Street



Building a Filipina/o American Movement in Stockton


Epilogue Coming Home to Little Manila


Notes


Bibliography


Index