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Mirrors are filled with people.
The invisible see us.
The forgotten recall us.
When we see ourselves, we see them.
When we turn away, do they?
~ Eduardo Galeano,
Mirrors, 2008
Recommended Reading
(far from comprehensive!)
From Veronica:
Fiction
Brainard, Cecilia. When the Rainbow Goddess Wept. University of Michigan, 1999.
Brainard, Cecilia. Magdalena. --------
Brainard, Cecilia. The Newspaper Widow. -------
Hagedorn, Jessica. Dream Jungle. Penguin Viking, 2003
Uriza Holthe, Tess. When the Elephants Dance. Penguin Books, 2003.
José, F. Sionil. The Samsons. Modern Library Paperback Original, 2000.
José, F. Sionil. Don Vicente. Modern Library Paperback Original, 1999.
José, F. Sionil. Dusk. Modern Library Paperback Original, 1998.
Murray, Sabina. The Caprices. Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Nolledo, Wilfrido D. But For the Lovers. Dalkey Archive Press, 1970
Research
Best, Jonathan. A Philippine Album: American Era Photographs 1900-1930. Bookmark, Inc., 1998.
Creighton Miller, Stuart. Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903. Yale University Press, 1982.
Dore Dowlen, Dorothy. Enduring What Cannot Be Endured: Memoir of a Woman Medical Aide in the Philippines in World War II. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2001.
Ignacio, Abe et al. The Forbidden Book. T’boli Publishing, 2004.
Bohulano Mabalon, Dawn. Little Manila is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. Duke University Press, 2013.
Rafael, Vicente L. White Love and Other Events in Filipino History. Duke University Press, 2000.
P. Root, Maria P. Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity. Sage Publications, 1997.
Schirmer, Daniel B. and Rosskamm Shalom, Stephen. The Philippines Reader: A History of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Dictatorship, and Resistance. South End Press, 1987
Velasco Shaw, Angel and Francia, Luis H. Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream 1899-1999. New York University Press, 2002.
From Rashaan:
Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics, Harcourt, 1965.
Mura, David. A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing, University of Georgia Press, 2018.
Peñaloza, Michelle. Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, Inlandia Books, 2019.
Solnit, Rebecca, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Penguin, 2005.
Young, Kevin, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, Graywolf Press, 2012.
From Marianne:
Fr. Francisco Alcina, SJ. Historia de las Islas Filipinas. 1608 (Bilingual translation published by University of Santo Tomas)
Blair and Robertson. A History of the Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1898, University of Michigan.
Adm. James Stavridis. Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans. Penguin Press, 2017.
La Casa de Dios: The Legacy of Filipino-Historic Churches in the Philippines, by Fr. Rene B. Javellana, SJ. The Ortigas Foundation, 2010.
Peter Harper and Laurie Fullerton. The Philippines Handbook. Moon Publications, Inc. 2nd edition, 1994.
Gemino H. Abad, editor. A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse in English, 60s to the 90s. University of the Philippines Press: Diliman, Quezon City, 1999.
From Marianne:
Fr. Francisco Alcina, SJ. Historia de las Islas Filipinas. 1608 (Bilingual translation published by University of Santo Tomas)
Blair and Robertson. A History of the Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1898, University of Michigan.
Adm. James Stavridis. Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans. Penguin Press, 2017.
La Casa de Dios: The Legacy of Filipino-Historic Churches in the Philippines, by Fr. Rene B. Javellana, SJ. The Ortigas Foundation, 2010.
Peter Harper and Laurie Fullerton. The Philippines Handbook. Moon Publications, Inc. 2nd edition, 1994.
Gemino H. Abad, editor. A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse in English, 60s to the 90s. University of the Philippines Press: Diliman, Quezon City, 1999.
From Rashaan:
Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics, Harcourt, 1965.
Mura, David. A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing, University of Georgia Press, 2018.
Peñaloza, Michelle. Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, Inlandia Books, 2019.
Solnit, Rebecca, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Penguin, 2005.
Young, Kevin, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, Graywolf Press, 2012.
What are the gaps in history
(general history, your history, your family/ancestors' history
that haunt you?
What questions do you wish you asked previous generations?
Napala Family, University of Pacific, Stockton, CA, 1954.
WRITING EXERCISE #2 (from Rashaan)
Taking a cue from Michelle Penaloza’s poem “Letter from My Mother” in
Former Possessesions of the Spanish Empire, (2019)
write a letter from the perspective of an elder or ancestor, a (great) grandparent or someone further back, maybe 100-400 years ago.
From David Mura,
A Strangers Journey (2018)
"Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci viewed self-examination as a call to understand the historical forces that have shaped a person; a person must understand that she and the world she lives in are neither natural nor something that appeared full blown out of nothing...
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory...Therefore it is imperative at the outset to compile such an inventory" (13-14).
WRITING EXERCISE #1 (from Rashaan)