Filipino American History Month: Nonfiction
A mixed plate of classic and contemporary history, memoir, poetry, cookery and more to celebrate Filipino American History Month. (Created September 2022).
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The Groom Will Keep His Name
This collection of essays from a gay Filipino immigrant follows his path through both the real and virtual queer culture, confronting questions of sex, power and his fight to resist norms of whiteness and sexuality.
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I Am A Filipino and This Is How We Cook
Filled with riotously bold and bright photographs, I Am a Filipino is like a classic kamayan dinner--one long festive table piled high with food. Just dig in! Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by The New Yorker, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, and more.
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Conquering the Pacific
The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery-and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history.
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Letters to A Young Brown Girl
Barbara Jane Reyes' poems answer the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector.
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Concepcion
A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience.
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Body Papers
Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s memoir The Body Papers bravely explores her experiences with sexual abuse, depression, cancer, and life as a Filipino immigrant, supplemented with government documents, medical records, and family photos.
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Fairest
A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love.
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Dear America
The journalist and immigration-rights activist presents a memoir relating how he was sent from the Philippines to the U.S. as a child, his discovery of his undocumented status as a teenager, and his decision to reveal his immigration status publicly in 2011.
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Querida América
El periodista Jose Antonio Vargas, ganador del Premio Pulitzer y "el inmigrante indocumentado más conocido de los Estados Unidos," aborda una de las cuestiones más urgentes de nuestro tiempo en este libro explosivo y profundamente personal.
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Summary Execution
On June 1, 1981, two young activists, Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, were murdered in Seattle in what was made to appear like a gang slaying. Attorney and author Michael Withey describes his ten-year battle for justice, embarking on a long and dangerous investigation to obtain convictions of three hitmen, and then prove in U.S. federal court that Marcos was behind the assassinations.
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