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Colonial Context of Filipino American Immigrants
The Pinay-Scholar Activist Stretches
Writing Intersectionality
Living in the Shadows
Poutporri
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This country colonized the Philippines for 333 years. And then this other country colonized the Philippines for 48 years.
What is SPAIN and THE UNITED STATES? * 381 years under the rule of other countries. Think about how our families come to understand ourselves, generations after generations. How we migrate. Spiritual & cultural wounds/wounding. Not something "of the past." It is here.
100
"Theorists help me speak nice language. Researchers give good thought to ponder. However, both can debilitate... What I do in the academy and down on the ground is something I feel." I am speaking of this kind of knowledge.
What is EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE?
100
She birthed PINAYISM in 1995.

Who is Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales?

100
This undocumented Filipinx American won a pulitzer prize for his work in journalism.
Who is JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS?
100
Treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant, peripheral, or marginal.
What is MARGINALIZATION?
200
This term describes the ways in which members of the Filipinx community (in the U.S. and throughout the diaspora) participate in self-degradation, cultural denigration, and striving and pandering to whiteness.
What is COLONIAL MENTALITY?
200
This term defines the longstanding power that exists as a result of colonialism’s history. It's not just the residue of colonialism, because to call it “residue” would lighten its weight. It is real. It is here. It is current. It is maintained.
What is COLONIALITY?
200

The author who who shares her reality about being BlacknPinay.

Who is Teresa Hodges?

200
Thinking of the ways in which immigration, undocumented-ness, and citizenship define our standing in society can be described as this I of oppression.
What is INSTITUTIONALIZED OPPRESSION?
200
In this course, we will not give space to hate speech. But we will give space to this.
What is FREE SPEECH?
300
CM among Filipino Americans has been defined as a specific form of this "I" (of oppression).
What is INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION?
300
Through my writing, I operationalize Freire's notion, "I am a ________, not a dichotomy."
What is a TOTALITY? * We can connect this to Jeff Chang’s argument during his talk that the moral imperative is to see everyone in all of their full humanity.
300

The author tells us "all you ever needed"...

Who is Adam Rabuy Crayne?

300
Those of us who who hold papers, who walk through the world as "citizens" without fear of arrest, deportation or family separation, should recognize an enormous sense of this.
What is PRIVILEGE?
300
Cornel West tries to give "______ to intellect, while being true to the funk of living."
What is HEART?
400
A study in 1996 in showed how this particular population has the highest rate of suicidal ideation among all ethnic groups.
Who are FILIPINA AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS?
400
In the 130-degree deserts of Kuwait, I ate in mess halls where the kitchen help largely consisted of THESE FOLKS, contracted to work civilian jobs for low wages... They served me my food, spoke... amongst themselves, and went about their labor chasing the almighty dollar.
Who are THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS of Philippine descent.
400

They write about CPP (critical pin@y parenting). 

Who are Rod & Arlene Daus-Magbual?

400
Filipino TNTs arrive in the U.S. with the intent to do this.
What is WORK? * Debunk the myth that "immigrants are here to mooch."
400
In the article How Asian Immigrants Learn Anti-Blackness From White Culture, And How To Stop It, Chung says: "Stop perpetuating the standard that: _____ = ______"
What is WHITE = IDEAL?
500
The Filipino American experience cannot be understood in THIS TYPICAL NARRATIVE, because ever since the first Filipino in the U.S. (aboard Spanish ships), to the early 1900s (U.S. colonialism), until now (colonial mentality), Filipino immigration has been influenced by colonialism and its legacies.
What is VOLUNTARY IMMIGRANT?
500
"One step forward, two steps back... In my first quarter as a PhD student, I received my first methods paper and found to my dismay that my use of THESE WORDS had been crossed out."
What is LIVED REALITIES?
500
The editors of Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader (at least their last names)!

Who are Nievera-Lozano & Santa Ana :)

500
According to Montoya, from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to current immigration bills, this particular sentiment "has ebbed and flowed with the politics of given time."
What is ANTI-IMMIGRANT?
500
Audre Lorde says the white, cis-gendered, straight, christian, male, slim or fit, able-bodied, and financially secure person is this.
What is THE MYTHICAL NORM?