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Uncle Rico

Uncle Rico's Encore

Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle

By Peter Bacho

From the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-born children faced more subtle forms of racism, such...

ISBN: 9780295749778

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Growing Up Brown

Growing Up Brown

Memoirs of a Filipino American

By Peter M. Jamero, Sr.. Foreword by Dorothy Laigo Cordova. Introduction by Peter Bacho. Afterword by Fred Cordova

"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a ‘campo’ boy...

ISBN: 9780295986425

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Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories

Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories

By Peter Bacho

The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the stories: Vince, the tough but...

ISBN: 9780295976372

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Cebu

Cebu

By Peter Bacho

This remarkable first novel follows the struggle of Ben Lucero, a young Filipino American priest who must come to terms with his bifurcated notion of home as well as his own religious commitment. Ben’s first...

ISBN: 9780295971322

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