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Author Labrador, Roderick N., author.

Title Building Filipino Hawaiʻi / Roderick N. Labrador.

Publication Info. Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages) : illustrations.
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Series The Asian American experience
Asian American experience.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-161) and index.
Contents Introduction: "Why do you want to go to Hawai'i?" -- Overlapping architectures -- "What's so p/funny?" -- "Anything but ..." -- "The center is not just for Filipinos, but for all of Hawai'i nei" -- Conclusion: Unsettling Hawai'i.
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."--Back cover.
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Subject Filipinos -- Hawaii -- Ethnic relations.
Filipinos.
Hawaii.
Ethnic relations.
Filipinos -- Hawaii -- History.
History.
Asian Americans -- Hawaii -- Ethnic relations.
Asian Americans.
Filipinos -- Hawaii -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Labrador, Roderick N. Building Filipino Hawaiʻi. Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2015] (DLC) 2014956525
ISBN 9780252096761
0252096762
0252038800
9780252038808
9780252080364
025208036X