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"Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, Building Filipino Hawai'i delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity."--

This item includes a video recording of a Mānoa Faculty Lecture Series presentation that took place in the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library and also a flyer for that presentation. ; Dr. Labrador will examine the ways that Bambu, a second-generation Filipino American rapper from Los Angeles, California, constructs his life narrative throughout his mixtape, "Los Angeles, Philippines," as a counter-story that challenges majoritarian stories while simultaneously reinforcing and critiquing the operations of race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and empire in U.S. society. Bambu is one of the most well-known, prolific, and respected Asian American MCs in the independent Hip Hop scene and was formerly one-third of the pioneering Filipino American rap group, Native Guns. Bambu collaborated with the legendary DJ Muggs to produce "Los Angeles, Philippines." Muggs is famed for his work as the DJ/Producer of Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins. With its self-conscious, self-referential style similar to Chuck D's "Autobiography of Mistachuck," "Los Angeles, Philippines" works as a musical autobiography that connects individual and collective memory, narrative, and engagement with the everyday world.

Increasingly, researchers call for closer examinations of Asian Americans to counter the false, yet widely held, assumption that collectively all Asian Americans are academically successful and have similar higher education experiences. Filipinx American college students are one of the fastest growing student populations of Asian Americans in higher education. As their enrollment numbers increase, it is even more imperative to recognize how the needs of Filipinx American students as a disaggregated group, differ from other Asian American students and understand the factors that contribute to Filipinx American postsecondary success. This article focuses directly upon Filipinx American students. It explores the various higher education engagement challenges, provides a theoretical framework to better understand the Filipinx American postsecondary student experience, and offers four important institutional engagement strategies to nurture educational attainment and success.

Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: New Politics of Race in Hawai'i -- E Micronesia, a poem -- 1: Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place: Polynesian Proximities to Whiteness in Cloud Atlas and Beyond -- 2: Mixed-Race Hollywood, Hawaiian Style -- 3: "I no eat dog, k": Humor, Hazing, and Multicultural Settler Colonialism -- 4: "Eh! Where you from?": Questions of Place, Race, and Identity in Contemporary Hawai'i -- 5: Race and/or Ethnicity in Hawai'i: What's the Difference and What Difference Does It Make? -- 6: The Racial Imperative: Rereading Hawai'i's History and Black- Hawaiian Relations through the Perspective of Black Residents -- 7: Local Boy, East Coast Sensibilities -- 8: "Latino Threat in the 808?" Mexican Migration and the Politics of Race in Hawai'i -- 9: Local Haole? Whites, Racial and Imperial Loyalties, and Membership in Hawai'i -- 10: Reconnecting Our Roots: Navigating the Turbulent Waters of Health-Care Policy for Micronesians in Hawai'i -- Afterword: Hawai'i Matters -- Contributors -- Index