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Peter Jamero's story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of the Filipino Americans born in the 1930s and '40s.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Dorothy Laigo Cordova

Introduction by Peter Bacho

Preface

Part One | Campo Life, 1930-1944

1. The Adventure Begins

2. Maeda's Place

3. Amid the Almond Trees

4. Livingston

Part Two | Learning About the Real World, 1944-1957

5. High School Years

6. Join the Navy and See the World

7. College Days

Part Three | Early Career, 1957-1970

8. My First Real Job

9. Moving Up

10. Washington, D.C.

11. A Stanford Man

Part Four | The Activist Executive, 1970-1995

12. Region X

13. Umbrella Agency

14. The Professor

15. King County

16. United Way

17. Whose Human Rights?

18. Community Based

Epilogue

Afterword by Fred Cordova

Index

About the Author

Peter Jamero is a community activist and former executive director of the Asian American Recovery Services in San Francisco, assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Washington, and state director of the Washington vocational rehabilitation program.

Reviews

"Growing Up Brown is intense, honest, and meaningful. Its major contributions will be etched in the ways it presents a 'local' story of a significant Filipino American bridge generation member cast within a larger tale of 'brown' Americans and their struggles to define themselves in relation to others, to find meaning in the communities and worlds they inhabited, and to tell their stories using their own voices and perspectives."--Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space