Filipino-Americans: Web Resources

We imagined creating a space that would be a cultural asset for SOMA Pilipinas that would connect all of the different residents, students, and workers in the areaway showcasing activities that heal the mind and body and expands our consciousness and raises the level of empathy in a downtrodden area of SF.

Igorot Natives Recall Controversial Display of Their Ancestors. From National Public Radio.

Housed in the Eastern Hotel in Seattle's International District, this permanent exhibit celebrates the life of Carlos Bulosan, a self-taught writer and union organizer who emigrated to Seattle from the Philippines as a teenager. The Web site features his biography, pictures, excerpts from his autobiography America Is in the Heart, histories of the Eastern Hotel and union organizers there, and Eliseo Art Arambulo Silva's mural inspired by Bulosan's poem "The Shadow of the Terror."

From the Smithsonian Institution. Scroll down and download the guide.

Filipino farm workers and their contributions to farm worker organizing and the UFW.

Story of Ingorots at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Originally published in: Journal of Filipino American National Historical Society, Vol. 2, 1992.

Information on Filipino American history, exhibits, and videos.

Encyclopedia article by historian H. Brett Melendy from Countries and Their Cultures website.

Part of The Philippine History Site from the Filipino-American Historical Society of Hawaii. Focuses on Manila men and pensionados.

Articles from the local history Shaping San Francisco website, written by Dr. James Sobredo, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies Program, at California State University in Sacramento.

New York Times article.

Much of Marina Espina’s research on Filipinos in Louisiana was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and many scholars fear that history may be gone for good.

Organization of San Francisco community activists and former tenants who were evicted from the International Hotel in 1977 working for the preservation of S.F.’s Manilatown and the restoration of the I-Hotel

Information on Filipino migration to the U.S., the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War, from the University of Hawaii.

Cal State U. Channel Islands student senior thesis.

Bulosan Center for Filipino American Studies focuses on preserving and presenting the broad aspects of the Filipino American experience.

Online oral history interviews by Skyline College ENGL 100/105 students (Kababayan).

San Francisco Filipino American community center.

“The epicenter of Pilipino American Performing Arts in San Francisco's SOMA Pilipino.”

Overview and links, from Emory University Postcolonial Studies.

Links to websites of Filipino writers, literature and more, from Philippine American Literary House.

Presenter of contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts in S.F.

P.A.W.A. is dedicated to “creating and encouraging literature and arts for the preservation and enrichment of Filipino and Filipino American historical, cultural and spiritual values.”