ABSTRACT

This book includes essays of the narrative of Filipino lives in the United States to provoke interrogation of the conventional wisdom and a critique of the global system of capital. It helps in constituting the Filipino community as an agent of historic change in a racist society.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

Alias "Flips," "Pinoys," "Brown Monkeys ..."

From the Boondocks to the "Belly of the Beast"

chapter 5|18 pages

Resistance, Intervention, Deliverance

Lessons from Philip Vera Cruz

chapter 7|22 pages

Fragments from an Exile's Journal