I am always grateful for October, not just because I enjoy autumn but because this month is Filipino-American History Month – a time when our community celebrates the achievements of Filipino-Americans and remembers the contributions to our history in the United States. Across the country, many Fil-Am communities are hosting or hosted events, from the […]
Berkeley City College celebrates Fil-Am History Month
When I was at the University of California at Davis for the Civic Leadership Forum: A Filipino Community Policy Symposium in September, I met Miguel Bryan Juteau, a design student attending Berkeley City College (BCC) who was going to be attending Davis next fall. I was away from my book display when he happened to […]
Celebrate Filipino-American History Month with our books
October is Filipino American History Month. Read our stories. Magkwento created a list of Filipino/Filipino-American writers and their works here.
Tumulong Tayo! Towards a Center for Filipino Studies
On Saturday, September 29th, the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies Initiative (BCFSI) was officially launched at the University of California at Davis. Dr. Robyn Rodriguez, Chair of UC Davis’s Asian American Studies Department, founded BCFSI, turning her vision of a University of California-based research and education center for the study of Filipinos into reality. During […]
OACC’s Forgotten Heroes of the Delano Grape Strike and UFW
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) has put together a wonderful Fil-Am History & Heritage Series for September through early November. I was honored to be part of the Tribute to the Delano Farm Workers event, Forgotten Heroes of the Delano Grape Strike and United Farm Workers, which took place on Sunday, September 17th. The program […]
Elaine Castillo reads from America Is Not the Heart
This past Sunday, September 9th, I had the honor of introducing Elaine Castillo at her reading at Eastwind Books of Berkeley. I had read her debut novel, America Is Not the Heart, and I was so enthusiastic in my introduction and praise of her book, which is ultimately an homage to her hometown of Milpitas, […]
17th Biennial FANHS Conference – Chicago: Finding stories in our Fil-Am Roots
The 17th Biennial Filipino-American National Historical Society (FANHS) Conference was held in Rosemont (Chicago), Illinois July 11-14, 2018. Grace Tulasan, lecturer at Tufts University whose memoir The Body Papers won the 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing will be published in February 2019, and I co-presented a session entitled, “Finding stories in our […]
A Village in the Fields out in eBook format
Better late than never. My novel, A Village in the Fields, is now out in eBook format at Smashwords. You can order your digital copy here. This is an ideal, cost-effective format for professors and teachers should they want to include it in their Asian American Studies courses. Contact me at [email protected] for a teacher’s […]
Porterville College C.H.A.P. presentation
I received the link to a presentation I had given at Porterville College on October 7, 2016, for PC’s Cultural, Historical Awareness Program (C.H.A.P.). The theme of my presentation was called, “Coming Home: Finding My Filipino-American Roots.” You can view it on the CCC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/xNQ16dnwb_o or click here.
48-hour whirlwind East Coast weekend: the Boston Book Festival and the Boston Filipino-American Book Club
In mid-September, Grace Talusan, Fulbright Scholar, English professor at Tufts University in Boston, and winner of the 2017 New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction by Restless Books, contacted me to let me know that the Boston Filipino-American Club (BFAB) was going to be reading my novel, A Village in the Fields, for the month of October. […]