Suggested Readings


Many of our students seek a better understanding of Filipino history, cultures, politics, and language practices. For many Filipinos and Filipino Americans, being part of UHMFIL is a journey of finding oneself and reconciliation. To provide support to our students' search for illumination, we put together the following list of readings:


America-is-in-the-Heart
America Is In the Heart

by Carlos Bulosan

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America-is-not-the-Heart
America Is Not the Heart

by Elaine Castillo

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Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive
Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive

by Nerissa Balce

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Building Filipino Hawaii
Building Filipino Hawaii

by Roderick Labrador

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Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino - American Postcolonial Psychology
Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino - American Postcolonial Psychology

by E.J. R. David

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Clothing the Colony
Clothing the Colony

by Stephanie Coo

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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

by Jose Antonio Vargas

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Dogeaters
Dogeaters

by Jessica Hagedorn

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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

by Catherine Choy

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Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawaii
Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawaii

by Jonathan Okamura

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Filipino American Psychology
Filipino American Psychology

by Kevin Nadal

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Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity
Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity

by Maria Root

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Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility
Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility

by Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, and Roland Coloma

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Giving Back: Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving
Giving Back: Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving

by Martin Manalansana

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Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

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Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers
                            in Global Cities
Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities

by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

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Growing up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American
Growing up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American

by Peter Jamero

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History of the Filipino People
History of the Filipino People

by Teodoro Agoncillo

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Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries
Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

by Yen Le Espiritu

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I was their American Dream
I was their American Dream

by Malaka Gharib

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Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other
                            Asian
Language, Identity, and Stereotype among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian

by Angela Reyes

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Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of
                            Space
Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space

by Rick Bonus

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Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State
Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State

by Patricio Abinales

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Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation

by Vicente Rafael

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Pacific-Rims-Flip-Flops-Philippines-Basketball
Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball

by Rafe Bartholomew

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Patron Saints of Nothing
Patron Saints of Nothing

by Randy Ribay

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Reconceptualizing English Education in Multilingual Society: English in the Philippines
Reconceptualizing English Education in Multilingual Society: English in the Philippines

by Isabel Pefianco Martin (Ed.)

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Rizal without the Overcoat
Rizal without the Overcoat

by Ambeth Ocampo

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Rolling-the-R
Rolling the R's

by R. Zamora Linmark

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Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work
Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work

by Beatriz Lorente

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Servants of Globalization
Servants of Globalization

by Rhacel Parrenas

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The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules by Anthony Ocampo
                            The Groom will keep His Name
The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules by Anthony Ocampo The Groom will keep His Name

by Matt Ortile

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The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines
The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines

by Caroline Hau

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The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines
The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines

by Caroline Hau

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Trese Vol 1: Murder on Balete Drive by Budjette Tan
                            Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today
Trese Vol 1: Murder on Balete Drive

by Budjette Tan

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Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today
Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today

by Ruanni Tupas

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Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on Philippine Cultural History
Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on Philippine Cultural History

by Resil Mojares