In this Book
- Building Filipino Hawai'i
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The Asian American Experience
summary
Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, Roderick Labrador delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity.
In particular, Labrador speaks to the processes of identity making and the politics of representation among immigrant communities striving to resist marginalization in a globalized, transnational era. Critiquing the popular image of Hawai'i as a postracial paradise, he reveals how Filipino immigrants talk about their relationships to the place(s) they left and the place(s) where they've settled, and how these discourses shape their identities. He also shows how the struggle for community empowerment, identity territorialization, and the process of placing and boundary making continue to affect how minority groups construct the stories they tell about themselves, to themselves and others.
In particular, Labrador speaks to the processes of identity making and the politics of representation among immigrant communities striving to resist marginalization in a globalized, transnational era. Critiquing the popular image of Hawai'i as a postracial paradise, he reveals how Filipino immigrants talk about their relationships to the place(s) they left and the place(s) where they've settled, and how these discourses shape their identities. He also shows how the struggle for community empowerment, identity territorialization, and the process of placing and boundary making continue to affect how minority groups construct the stories they tell about themselves, to themselves and others.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- Chapter 1. Overlapping Architectures
- pp. 27-48
- Chapter 2. "What's so p/funny?"
- pp. 49-73
- Chapter 3. "Anything but . . ."
- pp. 74-97
- Conclusion. Unsettling Hawai'i
- pp. 129-136
- Bibliography
- pp. 149-162
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252096761
Related ISBN(s)
9780252038808, 9780252080364
MARC Record
OCLC
900193815
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-05
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015