Building Filipino Hawaii / Roderick N. Labrador.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Labrador, Roderick N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipinos--Hawaii--Social conditions.

Filipinos.

Asian Americans--Hawaii--Ethnic relations.

Asian Americans.

Filipinos--Hawaii--History.

Filipinos--Hawaii--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

History.

Social conditions.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

xiii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Summary:

Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, Building Filipino Hawai'i 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. Roderick 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 image of Hawai'i as a postracial paradise, be reveals the ways 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 that struggles for community empowerment and identity territorialization continue to affect the ways in which minority groups construct the stories they tell about themselves, to themselves and others. An in-depth study of an oft-overlooked minority group, Building Filipino Hawai'i offers a rare on-the-ground view of immigrants and the children of immigrants struggling to build community. It explores what happens when members of different social tiers pursue upward socioeconomic mobility by building identities on competing origin myths and claims to cultural purity. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Overlapping Architectures 27

Chapter 2 "What's so p/funny?" 49

Chapter 3 "Anything but..." 74

Chapter 4 "The Center is not just for Filipinos, but for all of Hawai'i nei" 98.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252038800

9780252038808

025208036X

9780252080364

OCLC:

877367873