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PublisherTemple University Press

ISBN-101592136656

ISBN-139781592136650

eBay Product ID (ePID)102855835

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Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

IllustratorYes

AuthorBenito Vergara

Book SeriesAsian American History and Cultu

FormatPaperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Reviews" Pinoy Capital is a colorful and nuanced ethnographic foray into the social institutions and quotidian lives of Filipino Americans living in Daly City. Vergara is a gifted writer and his work delves closely on the affective and reciprocal relationships and practices of Filipino Americans as immigrants. This is a welcome and important study, and Vergara puts forward important and innovative assertions and arguments that will have repercussions on debates about Filipinos in the United States." -- Martin Manalansan , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and editor of Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America, "Pinoy Capital is a landmark text-an exciting, refreshing, and critical ethnography that continues, but revitalizes, ongoing conversations regarding Filipino immigrant/transnational life in the United States. There have been very few ethnographies of this group, and I think this one not only offers a much-needed and provocative study, it complicates arguments and discussions about the specificities of Filipino immigration to the U.S. Vergara provides solid and rigorous engagement with his objects of study, and he is especially attuned to the clarities and complexities of everyday life in a particular site that is touted as a quintessential one for Filipino American settlement." -Rick Bonus, Associate Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington, " Pinoy Capital is a landmark text--an exciting, refreshing, and critical ethnography that continues, but revitalizes, ongoing conversations regarding Filipino immigrant/transnational life in the United States. There have been very few ethnographies of this group, and I think this one not only offers a much-needed and provocative study, it complicates arguments and discussions about the specificities of Filipino immigration to the U.S. Vergara provides solid and rigorous engagement with his objects of study, and he is especially attuned to the clarities and complexities of everyday life in a particular site that is touted as a quintessential one for Filipino American settlement." -- Rick Bonus , Associate Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington

Dewey Edition22

Publication Date2008-12-28

Lccn2008-014174

Dewey Decimal305.89/921079469

Lc Classification NumberF869.D23v47 2009

Table of Content1: A Repeated Turning; 2: Little Manila; 3. Looking Forward: Narratives of Obligation.; 4. Spreading the News: Newspapers and Transnational Belonging.; 5. Looking Back: Indifference, Responsibility, and the Anti-Marcos Movement in the United States.; 6: Betrayal and Belonging; 7: Citizenship and Nostalgia; 8: Pinoy CapitalBibliography