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Filipino/a/x American History Month: October 2024

2024 Theme - Struggle, Resistance, Solidarity, and Resilience

October is Filipino American History Month! From the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Board of Trustees: The official 2024 theme for Filipino American History Month is “Struggle, Resistance, Solidarity, and Resilience.”

Throughout Filipino American history, there have been instances of struggle, resistance, solidarity, and resilience. Struggle and resistance are defined as the ways that the Filipino American community has persisted through various types of systemic oppression and violence - ranging from discriminatory laws that treated Filipino Americans as second-class citizens to the hate violence Filipino Americans endured because of their race, ethnicity, and other identities. Solidarity includes the ways that Filipino Americans have organized to fight against injustice - either within their own communities or alongside other racial and ethnic groups. Resilience involves the ways in which Filipino Americans have successfully overcome adversity throughout history - despite the systemic and interpersonal obstacles they have endured.

From the painful to the triumphant, all of these moments contribute to a cumulative Filipino American history. We encourage our communities to reflect on our history and celebrate our collective love and joy.

Source: http://fanhs-national.org/filam/theme-for-filipino-american-history-month-october-2024-struggle-resistance-solidarity-and-resilience/

Display in the Library

Located under the Dome, 1st Floor

Oct 1 - 31, 2024

 

Librarian Narrative

Last year’s display highlighted the past and its influence on the Filipinx American community in San Diego. Rather than looking backward, this year, I wanted to highlight how we can move forward and make active changes to our current society. 

Inspired by a student’s joy last year for the APIDA Center’s hosted event of Ruby Ibarra and my dear friend, who is a Native rapper and a librarian and friends with Rocky Rivera, I choose to look at Filipinx Americans and their use of hip-hop to help tell their story, find a creative outlet, find kinship, and push for social justice. 

Hip-Hop as a culture is expressed in many formats, such as music, dance, art, and fashion. While the display focuses on musical expression, I feel that the materials highlighted are similar to hip-hop’s variety of expressions. 

You’ll find scholarly works like books, chapters, journal articles, dissertations, and theses. All of these centers on the study of Filipinx Americans and hip-hop. You’ll also find original works, such as primary sources of documentaries and actual music from Filipinx American artists. 

Like many students starting a new research journey, I discovered a few gems of resources like Christopher Vito’s “The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era: Hip-Hop's Rebels.” Vito is a native San Diegan, a Filipino American, a SDSU alum, studies hip-hop, and openly shares how hip-hop saved his life. I look forward to continuing my knowledge journey to further learn about the complexities of the Filipinx Americans and their use of hip-hop culture. 

I’ve assembled this display as a starting point to inspire our large community of Filipinx American SDSU students. 

Thanks for browsing through,

Jenny Wong-Welch

Librarian

Highlighted Resources

Books

Articles

 

Book Chapters

  • Harrison, AK. (2015). “Change That Wouldn’t Fill a Homeless Man’s Cup Up”: Filipino American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama. In The Hip Hop and Obama Reader (pp. 134-154) . Oxford University Press, Incorporated. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sdsu/reader.action?docID=4082690&ppg=154
  • Ortega, A., Dela Cruz, B., Dayrit, C., Angeles, E., Saguin, K., Garcia, L., Martinez, M., De Guzman, M. & Lopez, Y. (2024). Counter-Cartographies of Resistance – Exposing Everyday Authoritarianism in the Philippines. In Beyond Molotovs - A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Counter-Strategies (pp. 80-85). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839470558-011

Dissertations & Theses

News Articles

Collective Group

 

Documentaries & Original Music

Mv. (2009, August 17). Watch hip hop mestizaje now! Hip Hop Lives. https://filamfunk.blogspot.com/2009/08/watch-hip-hop-mestizaje-now.html

Beats, rhymes, and resistance: Pilipinos and hip hop in los angeles(The definitive version). (n.d.). [Video recording]. Retrieved September 26, 2024, from https://vimeo.com/3722157