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