Requiem for the Orchard & My American Kundiman: Western Art Was Believed to Be Inherently More “
From my experience in both high school and college, the literary material offered by almost all my English literature classes was curated...
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Keana A. Labra
Jan 20, 2019
Max DeHart - A Filipino American Artist on Surviving Isolation With Nature
There is a surge of artists of all backgrounds, specifically within marginalized populations, establishing themselves in the art...
Chris Villedo
Nov 24, 2018
Jordan Clarkson: The Unsung Hero of Philippine Basketball
Representing your home country in a major sport is one of the many important responsibilities athletes hold. It is unfortunate that most...
Keana A. Labra
Nov 22, 2018
Artist Interview with Filipino, Vince Simbe: An Embrace of American Culture
The conversation between the Filipinos who left the island and those who stayed is ongoing and as passionate as ever. The subject of the...
Kristalyne Rullamas
Nov 21, 2018
Coco, Filipino-American Artist, Reflects on a Growing Filipino Presence in the Art World
Coco is a recent art graduate from Laguna College of Art + Design and has a passion for telling stories through her colorfully, whimsical...
Keana A. Labra
Oct 17, 2018
An Interview With Filipino Artist, Amanda Pascual, From Northern California
Amanda Pascual is a recent graduate of Sacramento State University. Through her love of painting and printmaking, she wishes to represent...
Rachel Egoian
Oct 17, 2018
America Is In the Heart a Novel by Carlos Bulosan: The Filipino Family, Home and Manhood
In our recent story on the novel, America Is not the Heart by Elaine Castillo, we explore the experiences shared by Filipino women that...
Rachel Egoian
Oct 14, 2018
Elaine Castillo's America Is Not the Heart: What Does It Mean to Be a Filipino Woman?
In Elaine Castillo’s debut novel, America is not the Heart, it delves into the themes of Filipino suffering and survival in which we...
Rachel Egoian
Oct 10, 2018
Photography and Colonialism in the Early 19th Century Philippines - Art or Documentation?
In the Filipino culture, art and photography lack the support from our communities in which we place our focus towards health and...
Christina Ayson
Sep 25, 2018
Salt Stained - the First Southeast Asian Artists Exhibit in Japantown, San Jose, CA
Taiko drums reverberated through the neighborhood. The smell of fish sauce wafted through the streets of Japantown. The scent and sound...
Rachel Egoian & Keana A. Labra
Aug 1, 2018
Kenneth Tan Ronquillo, an Award Winning Filipino Artist; Family and Love on Canvas
Kenneth Tan Ronquillo is a San Jose based Filipino artist whose beginnings started with an unconventional move: he left Southern...
Rachel Egoian
Jun 11, 2018
Philip Vera Cruz: Inspiring Youths about the Filipino Farmworkers Movement, the Minority Within a Mi
A Filipino history lacks visibility in the eyes of society and more importantly for today’s Filipino and Filipino Americans. Why is this...
Rachel Egoian
Jun 11, 2018
Monstress by Lesley Tenorio Article; Growing Up as a Filipino Minority
Filipino author Lysley Tenorio’s stories has appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares Monoa, and The Best New American...
Rachel Egoian
Jun 11, 2018
A Review of Dogeaters, a Novel by Jessica Hagedorn, an American Book Award Winner from the Before C
Having read Jessica Hagedorn’s controversial novel, Dogeaters, I found myself struggling with the the novel’s complex structure of the...
Amanda Pascual
Jun 11, 2018
The Lack of Filipino Artists Featured in Art Museums
Throughout my studies as a studio art major, I envied my Chinese and Latina friends who had easy access to an abundance of resources on...
Keana A. Labra
Jun 11, 2018
From Bong Bong to Bob: Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit and the Americanization of Filipin
The predicament of Filipino Americans, children either born in the United States or immigrated at a very young age, is usually not a lack...
Keana A. Labra
Jun 11, 2018
Filipino Children's Literature, Tales, Fables, and Oral Traditions
Even with the push for progressive and multicultural children’s literature, it still required a bit of searching to find a Filipino...
Keana A. Labra
Jun 11, 2018
Storm Over Leyte; Filipino Guerrillas Played an Important Role in WWII. Why Were Their Efforts Omitt
In all my years of education, this quote remained ubiquitous in my social studies courses: “History is written by the victors.” There...
Keana A. Labra
Jun 11, 2018
Ongoing Martial Law in Mindanao: The Importance of Citizen Involvement & Participation
As much as we would like to believe there are more than two political parties in the United States, it is truthful to be aware of our...
Rachel Egoian
Jun 6, 2018
Peter Jamero's book Vanishing Filipino Americans: The Bridge Generation
We often question why is there such a gap between the old and new generations of Filipinos and Filipino Americans? Why is there little...
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