ABSTRACT
In 1968, a new student organization at San Francisco State University, the Philippine American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE), released its statement of goals and principles, which read:
We seek … simply to function as human beings, to control our own lives. Initially, following the myth of the American Dream, we worked to attend predominantly white colleges, but we have learned through direct analysis that it is impossible for our people, so-called minorities to function as human beings, in a racist society in which white always comes first … So we have decided to fuse ourselves with the masses of Third World people, which are the majority of the world’s people, to create, through struggle, a new humanity, a new humanism, a New World Consciousness, and within that context collectively control our own destinies.1
