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Educational Perspectives
Recasting Our Relatives: Eroding and (E)Merging Filipino Connections
2017 •
Jeffrey Moniz
What is the future of Filipino in Filipino American? What counts as Filipino in Filipino American? Who counts as Filipino in Filipino American? These are the questions I pose in light of demographic shifts over time and the advent of science and technology, including genetic testing. I launch my inquiry by first exploring indigenous perspectives and methods concerning Filipino identities. Secondly, I engage in storytelling methods that help illustrate the main themes that emerged from this inquiry. Thirdly, I explore some of the implications for self-understanding implied by recent developments in DNA testing. And finally, I focus my analysis on the future utility and continued relevance of what it means to be Filipino and Filipino American.
Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature
"This is the Filipino scene for me": Ethnicity, Gender, and Hip-Hop dance in Hawai'i
2019 •
J. Lorenzo Perillo
Hip-Hop, especially its dance culture, is a tremendous vehicle of identity formation and collective belonging for colonized and disenfranchised youth in the contemporary period. In Oʻahu, Hawai‘i, youth simultaneously engage local, native Hawaiian, and Filipino referents, while navigating tensions around authenticity and competition shared across global Hip-Hop cultural communities. The article first contextualizes Hip-Hop studies in Hawai‘i and emphasizes heretofore overlooked spatial dimensions of ethnicity and race through the case study of The Monarchy dance competition (2007), Oʻahu’s largest Hip-Hop dance event. The next sections highlight the politics of gender and Hip-Hop, which both consolidates gender binarism and carries potentials for progressive social change, through the cultural practices of b-girls. Adding to fields of popular dance and gender studies, the article documents the complicated cultural formations that emerge from and counter the historical and continued marginalization of Filipinos in Hawai‘i.
Californian Journal of Health Promotion
Social, Cultural and Behavioral Determinants of Health among Hawaii Filipinos
2015 •
ann pobutsky
Background/Purpose: Filipinos are Hawaii’s largest immigrant group and second largest ethnic group. The Hawaii Filipino Health Communities Project was initiated by the Hawaii State Department of Health, because of the high rates of heart disease and stroke mortality, and other behavioral risks seen among Hawaii’s Filipino population (i.e. high smoking rates among Filipino men). The project sought to gather Filipino community members’ perspectives on why such chronic disease health disparities exist for Filipinos, and identify solutions to address them. Methods: The project gathered information from both immigrant and local Filipinos throughout the state, using community engagement methods of interviews with community leaders (n=20) and community-based focus groups (n=20 groups with 130 participants), Results: Filipino community members were aware of, and community leaders well-versed in, the behavioral, cultural, and social determinants of health in their communities. However, being...
How do Native Hawaiian Concepts of Well-being Inform the Meaning and Social Function of Food?
2015 •
Darrah Kuratani
Pragmatics
" We can laugh at ourselves": Hawai'i Ethnic Humor, Local Identity and the Myth of Multiculturalism
Museum Worlds
Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage
2020 •
Cristiana Bastos
Plantation museums and memorials play different roles in coming to terms with a past of racialized violence. In this article, I briefly review the academic literature on plantations, refer to the plantation–race nexus, address the critical and acritical uses of plantation memories, discuss modes of musealizing plantations and memorializing labor, and present a community-based museum structure: Hawaii’s Plantation Village. This museum project is consistent with a multiethnic narrative of Hawai‘i, in that it provides both an overview of the plantation experience and a detailed account of the cultural heritage of each national group recruited for the sugar plantations. By providing a sense of historical belonging, a chronology of arrival, and a materialized representation of a lived experience, this museum plays an active and interactive role in the shaping of a collective memory of the plantation era, selecting the more egalitarian aspects of a parallel coexistence rather than the hie...
Contradictions in Meaning: The Many Narratives on Local Identity and Culture in Hawai`i
Brittany Curtis
The term “Local” holds different meanings, depending on the point of view through which one looks at the concept. In this paper I am isolating the distinctive narratives of Local culture and identity as I encountered them during my research, and the contradictions that I found between the idea and the reality. While I cannot explain some of the contradictions I encountered, it is clear to me that much of the variation within the many concepts of Local stem from the tension in Hawai`i between the notion of what the culture should be and what it is.
Californian Journal of Health Promotion
Academic-Community Partnership to Explore High-Smoking Prevalence in Filipina Girls
Angela Sy
Smoking prevalence for Asian-Americans (AA) is low compared to non-AAs; however in Hawai`, the prevalence of smoking among Filipina high school girls is more than double that of Japanese high school girls. This study explored socio-cultural factors facilitating or serving as barriers against tobacco use among Filipina girls. Representatives from four community organizations, recognized for their work with Filipinos, were engaged throughout the research to facilitate the project and to ensure cultural relevance. Eleven focus groups (n=88), led by peer facilitators, discussed smoking. Twelve cultural key informants interpreted results presented from the transcripts. Results: Self-reported reasons why Filipina girls may smoke included the need to cope and to fit in. School and family responsibilities were commonly stated as barriers to smoking among Filipina girls. Nonetheless, many girls said they were given cigarettes from family members who smoked. Cultural key informants recommende...
The Case of Native Hawaiians and Higher Education
Shawn Kanaiaupuni
Introduction: Towards an Oceanic Filipinx Studies
2022 •
Demiliza S Saramosing
Saramosing, Demiliza Sagaral, and Roderick N. Labrador. "Introduction: Towards an Oceanic Filipinx Studies." (2022): 215-232.
