Growing Up Filipino in San Francisco’s South of Market
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Work, family, veterans, schools, music, and community in San Francisco’s South of Market.
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Positively Filipino’s Timeline: Filipino American History
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Here’s a quick look at the chronology of Filipino American history and historic breakthroughs.
Read MorePledge of PH Independence Act Turned Filipino U.S. Nationals Into Aliens
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The Tydings–McDuffie Act promised Philippine independence while nearly closing America’s door to the Manong generation.
Read MoreHouse of Stone Keeps Past Alive in Modern Iloilo
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With Iloilo marching forward briskly on the path of progress, city planners would do well to glean lessons Balay nga Bato has to give.
Read MoreWhen Philippine Independence Day Moved to Another Date
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On July 4, 1946, the United States formally granted independence to the Philippines. It was a significant event, but one that carried an uncomfortable implication.
Read MoreRizal Navigated the Troubled Water of Diaspora Identity Politics
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The author had to exorcise his mind of the ilustrado ghosts—the very ghosts Rizal himself, in his final years, began to question.
Read MoreRebuffing Graciano Lopez Jaena’s ‘Dirty Fingers’
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New book argues that elitist bias smeared the image of the Propaganda Movement’s foremost writer and hero.
Read MoreFinding the Philippines in Mexico
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In Mexico, the author did not simply discover another country. He encountered a forgotten mirror of the Philippines itself.
Read MoreThe Elderly Filipino Men of ʻAʻala Park
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‘A’ala Park was a place where the aging Filipinos and other retirees gathered to pass the time, carrying forward a world that had vanished.
Read MoreHands That Healed the World: First Filipina Nurses In Europe
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The first group of Filipino nurses sailed for France in December 1914 aboard the SS Empress of Russia.
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