Growing up Brown Memoirs of a Filipino American

Name: Growing up Brown Memoirs of a Filipino American
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ISBN: 9780295986425

ISBN-10: 0295986425

ISBN-13: 9780295986425

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter M. Jamero, Dorothy Laigo Cordova, Peter Bacho, Fred Cordova

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 6/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Preface



Campo Life, 1930-1944



The Adventure Begins



Maeda's Place



Amid the Almond Trees



Livingston



Learning about the Real World, 1944-1957



High School Years



Join the Navy and See the World



College Days



Early Career, 1957-1970



My First Real Job



Moving Up



Washington, D.C.



A Stanford Man



The Activist Executive, 1970-1995



Region X



Umbrella Agency



The Professor



King County



United Way



Whose Human Rights?



Community Based


Epilogue


Afterword



Index