Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American

Contents

Contents FOREWORD by dorothy laigo cordova vii INTRODUCTION by peter bacho ix PREFACE xii I CAMPO LIFE, 1930–1944 1 The Adventure Begins 3 2 Maeda’s Place 14 3 Amid the Almond Trees 28 4 Livingston 38 II LEARNING ABOUT THE REAL WORLD, 1944–1957 5 High School Years 61 6 Join the Navy and See the World 83 7 College Days 96 III EARLY CAREER, 1957–1970 8 My First Real Job 121 9 Moving Up 131 10 Washington, D.C. 142 11 A Stanford Man 156 IV THE ACTIVIST EXECUTIVE, 1970–1995 12 Region X 168 13 Umbrella Agency 193 14 The Professor 221 15 King County 234 16 United Way 246 17 Whose Human Rights? 272 18 Community Based 290 EPILOGUE 317 AFTERWORD by fred cordova 319 INDEX 321 ...