LEADER 04590nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910961528403321 005 20240418051331.0 010 $a9780295802145 010 $a0295802146 024 7 $a10.1515/9780295802145 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241616 035 $a(EBL)3444482 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713942 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11444885 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713942 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10664540 035 $a(PQKB)10631929 035 $a(OCoLC)811563694 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21245 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444482 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10599015 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL810450 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444482 035 $a(Perlego)723511 035 $a(DE-B1597)726380 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780295802145 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241616 100 $a20060418d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGrowing up brown $ememoirs of a Filipino American /$fPeter Jamero 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aSeattle $cUniversity of Washington Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 225 1 $aThe Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9780295986425 311 08$a0295986425 327 $a""Contents""; ""Foreword by Dorothy Laigo Cordova""; ""Introduction by Peter Bacho""; ""Preface""; ""I. Campo Life, 1930-1944""; ""1. The Adventure Begins""; ""2. Maeda's Place""; ""3. Amid the Almond Trees""; ""4. Livingston""; ""II. Learning About The Real World, 1944-1957""; ""5. High School Years""; ""6. Join the Navy and See the World""; ""7. College Days""; ""III. Early Career, 1957-1970""; ""8. My First Real Job""; ""9. Moving Up""; ""10. Washington, D.C.""; ""11. A Stanford Man""; ""IV. The Activist Executive, 1970-1995""; ""12. Region X""; ""13. Umbrella Agency"" 327 $a""14. The Professor""""15. King County""; ""16. United Way""; ""17. Whose Human Rights?""; ""18. Community Based""; ""Epilogue ""; ""Afterword by Fred Cordova""; ""Index "" 330 8 $a"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a 'campo' boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. As a campo boy, I also began to see the two faces of America, a place where Filipinos were at once welcomed and excluded, were considered equal and were discriminated against. It was a place where the values of fairness and freedom often fell short when Filipinos put them to the test.""-- Peter Jamero Peter Jamero's story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of what he calls the "bridge generation" -- the American-born children of the Filipinos recruited as farm workers in the 1920s and 30s. Their experiences span the gap between these early immigrants and those Filipinos who owe their U.S. residency to the liberalization of immigration laws in 1965. His book is a sequel of sorts to Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart, with themes of heartbreaking struggle against racism and poverty and eventual triumph. Jamero describes his early life in a farm-labor camp in Livingston, California, and the path that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far beyond Livingston. A longtime community activist and civic leader, Jamero describes decades of toil and progress before the Filipino community entered the sociopolitical mainstream. He shares a wealth of anecdotes and reflections from his career as an executive of health and human service programs in Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco. 410 0$aScott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies. 606 $aFilipino Americans$xEthnic identity 606 $aFilipino Americans$zCalifornia$zLivingston$vBiography 607 $aLivingston (Calif.)$vBiography 607 $aLivingston (Calif.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 615 0$aFilipino Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aFilipino Americans 676 $a305.89921079 700 $aJamero$b Peter M$01800652 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961528403321 996 $aGrowing up brown$94345560 997 $aUNINA