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Pilipinx American Heritage Month

Pilipinx American Heritage

The purpose of Pilipinx American Heritage Month is to educate, share, and preserve the Pilipinx culture at MiraCosta College and its surrounding communities. The vision is to promote and honor the contributions of Pilipinx and Pilipinx Americans through organized leadership activities, arts, and educational workshops. The month of October is Filipino American History Month; this declaration was established in 1988 by a non-profit organization known as Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS). The Filipino American National History Society was established in 1982 in Seattle, WA; the mission of FANHS is studying, preserving, and sharing Filipino American history (FANHS, 2018). The month long celebration commemorates, “the first recorded presence of Filipinos in the continental United States, which occurred on October 18, 1587, when “Luzones Indios” came ashore from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Esperanza and landed at what is now Morro Bay, California” (FANHS, 2018b). Congress officially recognized October as Filipino American History Month, in the U.S. with H. Res. 780.

Famous PilipinX

Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

Filipino American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas discovered at age 16 he was an undocumented immigrant. Since that moment, he kept his undocumented status a secret. He graduated from college, accepted internships and jobs, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2008. In 2011 he revealed his status through an article for the NY Times. Full Bio

Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga

The Philippine-born singer and actress Lea Salonga is best known for originating the role of Kim in the 1990 London stage hit Miss Saigon. She won every major New York drama award including a Tony Award for Best Actress in 1991 and was the singing voice for Aladdin and Mulan. Full Bio

Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars

Peter Gene Hernandez, known professionally as Bruno Mars, was born and raised in Hawaii by a half Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish (from Ukraine and Hungary) father and a Filipina mother. Selling more than 130 million albums, and with a net worth of more than $100 million he is one of the most successful musical artists of all time. Full Bio

Corazon Aquino

Corazon Aquino

Corazon Cojoangco Aquino was the first female president of the Phillipines. Her 1986 election was largely a response to the assassination of her husband who was from a well-known and historic political family in the Phillipines. Full Bio

Raymond Townsend playing basketball

Raymond Townsend

Raymond Townsend is a former professional basketball player and the first Filipino American to play for the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was also the first Asian American to be selected in the first round of the NBA draft. Standing at 6 feet 3 inches tall, the talented guard played three seasons professionally in the United States, and several years abroad, before he retired from basketball in 1988. (Source Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History) Full Bio 

Bienvenido Santos

Bienvenido Santos

The author of several novels and numerous short stories and poems, Santos is best known for works such as the American Book Award–winning collection Scent of Apples. His writings chronicle the development of Filipino American identity amid the political upheaval of the twentieth century. Full bio

Fe del Mundo

Fe del Mundo

Fe del Mundo (1911–2011) was a Filipino pediatrician who was the first woman to be admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1936 - over ten years before the school officially began admitting women. She was also the first woman to be named National Scientist of the Philippines in 1980, and founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. Bio and Obituary

Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao

A prize-winning boxer, the five-foot, six-inch tall Manny Pacquiao's nicknames are Pac-man and the Destroyer. Pacquiao is the first boxer ever to win eleven world titles in eight different weight divisions. Full Bio

Emil Guillermo

Emil Guillermo

Emil Guillermo is a radio and television journalist who came to national prominence as the weekend anchor of National Public Radio's news program "All Things Considered," which he hosted from 1989 until 1991. His commentaries and humorous essays became very popular with the show's audience and led to his column "Amok," which is published monthly in Filipinas magazine. Full Bio

Image of DJ Qbert By Griz-Lee Christian Zebrowski - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3569531

DJ Qbert

"DJ QBert is a renowned Filipino American turntablist who performed regularly with San Francisco–based childhood friends Mix Master Mike (1970–) and DJ Apollo (Apollo Novicio, n.d.) in the late 1980s and early 1990s." (Source: GVRL Hip Hop around the WorldAn Encyclopedia)  Full Bio

Ebooks available from the MiraCosta Library

Image of book title Faith, Family, and Filipino American Community Life
Book Jacket of The Latinos of Asia
Image shows book cover for Filipino Studies : Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
Cover image of Reliquaria
Cover image of Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology
Cover of a book titled Monstress: Stories
Cover image of book titled Puro Arte : Filipinos on the Stages of Empire
Image of book title Direk : Essays on Filipino Filmmakers
Book Jacket of A Time to Rise

PilipinX American Heritage Films @ MiraCosta Library

Yellow Rose [Film Poster]

Yellow Rose

In rural Texas, a Filipino teen longs to make her mark on the world of country music. When an unexpected opportunity comes her way, she must make a choice between upholding her family's traditions or leaving them all behind to pursue her lifelong aspiration.

Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers

Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers

The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement’s finest hours – The Delano Grape Strike of 1965 that brought about the creation of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW).

Bitter Melon [Film image]

Bitter Melon

When a Filipino-American family reunites for a Christmas party, the holiday takes a dark turn when they conspire to murder the abusive bully of the family in this dark comedy by filmmaker H.P. Mendoza.

In No One's Shadow: Filipinos in America

In No One's Shadow: Filipinos in America

Recounts Filipino American history from the 1900s to the present, exploring many of the contributions that Filipinos have made to this society in fields such as agriculture, arts and politics.

Call Her Ganda

Call Her Ganda

 

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan), and Jennifer's mother (Julita Nanay Laude) galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of U.S. imperialism.

An Untold Triumph: The Story of the 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments, U.S. Army

An Untold Triumph: The Story of the 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments, U.S. Army

 

During World War II, 7,000 Filipino Americans volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and helped liberate their homeland from Japanese occupation.

Ameri‐Pino: Recognizing Filipino Heritage in America

Ameri‐Pino: Recognizing Filipino Heritage in America

A cine‐ethnographic portrait discovering what it is to be an American Filipino, exploring the generational struggles of heritage recognition, hyphenated identity, and discovery of ethnic discrimination, Ameri‐Pino reveals the strengths of the American Filipino community.