Little Manila Is in the Heart

The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California

Autor: Mabalon, Dawn Bohulano
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822353256
eISBN Pdf: 9780822395744
Lugar de publicación: Durham , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2013
Mes: Junio
Páginas: 464
DDC: 305.899/21073079455
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union halls, and barbershops. Little Manila was home to the largest community of Filipinas/os outside of the Philippines until the neighborhood was decimated by urban redevelopment in the 1960s. Narrating a history spanning much of the twentieth century, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon traces the growth of Stockton's Filipina/o American community, the birth and eventual destruction of Little Manila, and recent efforts to remember and preserve it.

Mabalon draws on oral histories, newspapers, photographs, personal archives, and her own family's history in Stockton. She reveals how Filipina/o immigrants created a community and ethnic culture shaped by their identities as colonial subjects of the United States, their racialization in Stockton as brown people, and their collective experiences in the fields and in the Little Manila neighborhood. In the process, Mabalon places Filipinas/os at the center of the development of California agriculture and the urban West.

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Remembering Little Manila
Part I. Putting Down Roots: 1898–1940s
- 1. From the Provinces to the Delta: Life on the Eve of Emigration to the United States
- 2. Toiling in the “Valley of Opportunity”
- 3. Making a Filipina/o American World in Stockton
Part II. Growing a Community: 1930s–1960s
- 4. Women, Families, and the Second Generation
- 5. Searching for Spiritual Sustenance
- 6. The Watershed of World War II
Part III. Destruction and Displacement: 1950s–2010
- 7. Losing El Dorado Street
- 8. Building a Filipina/o American Movement in Stockton
Epilogue: Coming Home to Little Manila
Notes
Bibliography
Index