ON THE PRESENCE OF FILIPINOS IN THE UNITED STATES
by E. San Juan, Jr.
SRMNK Publishers
© 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-9651680-1-4
ISBN-10: 0-9651680-1-8

Four select essays by E. San Juan are intended “to elicit critical thinking on this evolving ‘identity’ and to provoke informed, constructive discussion.” Published in time for the celebration of the Centennial arrival of Filipinos in Hawaii to work in the sugar plantations, the essays encapsulate the history and rationale for the presence of Filipinos in the United States.

Carlos Bulosan, the radical writer-activist, captured the saga of Filipino resistance from the thirties to the outbreak of World War II in his testimony, America Is in the Heart.

Union organizer Philip Vera Cruz memorialized the evolution of the indeterminate sojourner to the pioneer militant of the United Farm Workers of America in the sixties.

In the last essay, “Returning from the Diaspora, Rediscovering the Homeland”, the author challenges Filipinos based in America to analyze their historical trajectory in order to understand the true character of the emerging Filipino diaspora.

Uprooted, dispersed, displaced, transported, can Filipinos—in the homeland and in foreign shores—ever come to terms with their dislocation to find an authentic identity?

OOV Bookshelf 2007

SEPTEMBER 2007 FEATURE COMMON DESTINY Filipino American Generations by Juanita Tamayo Lott Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street ni Benjamin Pimentel LAKBAY SINING readings on cultural development in the Philippines by Various Authors The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes by Eileen R. Tabios Into the Country of Standing Men by Rey Ventura A Woman Pope, Neanderthals & Other Stories by Denis Murphy Salvaged Poems By Emman Lacaba U.G. An Underground Tale The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm Generation by Benjamin Pimentel MAY 2007 FEATURE The Bride Anthology by Patria Rivera 25 Chickens and a Pig for the Bride by Evangeline Canonizado Buell Not at the Table, Please! By Quirico S. Samonte, Jr. SCRATCH THE NEWS Filipino Americans In Our Midst by Cristina D.C. Pastor On the Presence of Filipinos in the United States by E. San Juan, Jr.