Filipino American Migration

Baldoz, Rick. The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Choy, Catherine Ceniza. Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Foronda, Marcelino A., Jr. “America Is in the Heart: Ilokano Immigration to the United States (1906–1930).” De La Salle University Occasional Paper, no. 3 (1976).

Espiritu, Yen Le. Homebound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Fujita-Rony, Dorothy B. American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Filipino American Communities

Bacho, Peter. Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.

Bonus, Rick. Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.

Filipino American National Historical Society, Central Valley Chapter. Talk Story: Anthology of the Stories by Filipino Americans of the Central Valley of California. Merced.: Carpenter Printing, 2008.

Guevarra, Rudy P. Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.

Habal, Estella. San Francisco’s International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.

Mabalon, Dawn B. Little Manila is in the Heart: The Making of Filipina/o American Community in Stockton. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.

Filipino American Labor and Unionism

Azuma, Eiichiro. “Racial Struggle, Immigrant Nationalism, and Ethnic Identity: Japanese and Filipinos in the California Delta.” Pacific Historical Review 67, no. 2 (1998): 163–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641561.

Cruz, Adrian. “There Will Be No ‘One Big Union’: The Struggle for Interracial Labor Unionism in California Agriculture, 1933 – 1939.” Cultural Dynamics 22, no. 1 (2010): 29–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374010368307.

Daniel, Cletus E. Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870–1941. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

De Witt, Howard A. Violence in the Fields: California Filipino Farm Labor Unionization During the Great Depression. Saratoga: Century Twenty One Pub., 1980.

Ferriss, Susan, and Ricardo Sandoval. The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1997.

Friday, Chris. Organizing Asian-American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870–1942. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Vera Cruz, Philip. A Personal History of the Farmworkers Movement. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.

Watsonville Race Riots 

Arcangel, Benjamin F. Anti-Filipino Race Riot and Fermine Tobera: The Friction of Filipino Culture Colliding with White American Society: Typescript, 1997 June 11, 1997.

Bogardus, Emory S. “Anti-Filipino Race Riots: A Report Made to the Ingram Institute of Social

Science, of San Diego, by E. S. Bogardus, University of Southern California, May 15, 1930.” In Letters in Exile: An Introductory Reader on the History of Pilipinos in America, edited by Jesse Quinsaat, 51–62. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976.

De Witt, Howard A. The Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot of 1930: A Case Study of the Great Depression and Ethnic Conflict in California. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1979.

De Witt, Howard A. “The Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot of 1930: A Case Study of the Great Depression and Ethnic Conflict in California.” Southern California Quarterly 61, no. 3 (1979): 291–302. https://doi.org/10.2307/41170831.

Filipino American Leisure, Gender, and Courtship 

Bautista, Anita. “Love in the Time of Taxi Dancers.” Filipinas (2007): 43–44.

España-Maram, Linda. “Brown ‘Hordes’ in McIntosh Suits: Filipinos, Taxi Dance Halls, and Performing the Immigrant Body in Los Angeles, 1930s–1940s,” in Joe Austin and Michael Willard, eds., Generations of Youth: Youth and Youth Cultures in Twentieth Century America. New York: 1998.

España-Maram, Linda. Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles’s Little Manila: Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s. Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Salazar Parrenas, Rhacel. “‘White Trash’ Meets the ‘Little Brown Monkeys’: The Taxi Dance Hall as a Site of Interracial and Gender Alliances between White Women and Filipino Immigrant Men in the 1920s and 1930s,” Amerasia Journal, 24 (1998), 115–134.

Volpp, Leti. “American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California.” University of California Davis Law Review, 33 (2000), 795–836

Creative Projects

Ancheta, Shirely, Jeime Jacinto, and Jeff Tagami eds. Without Names: A Collection of Poems by Bay Area Pilipino American Writers. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1985.

Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History. 2nd ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973.

Dunn, Geoffrey. Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance: A Historic Portrait of Filipino Farmworkers in America. San Francisco, California: Impact Productions, 1984.

Mabalon, Dawn B. and Gayle Romasanta, Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong. Stockton: Bridge and Delta Publishing, 2018.

Tagami, Jeff. October Light. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1987.

Yamashita, Karen Tei, Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, Leland Wong, and Sina Grace. I Hotel. Second edition. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2019.

Additional Digital Archives and Other Digital Projects

Filipino American Digital Archives (FADA), California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Filipino Love Stories, The Re/Collecting Project: An Ethnic Studies Memory Project of California’s Central Coast, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Welga Digital Archive, Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, University of California, Davis.