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Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) by Peter M. Jamero, Sr.; Dorothy Laigo Cordova; Peter Bacho; Fred Cordova is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) about?
Peter Jamero's story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of the "Bridge Generation" of Filipino Americans born in the 1930s and '40s - the sons and daughters of the manong generation of immigrants, whose lives cross boundaries of being both Filipino and American. Jamero describes his childhood in a farm labor camp and his career as a community activist, civic leader, and administrator of health and human service programs in Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco.
Who reads Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter M. Jamero, Sr.; Dorothy Laigo Cordova; Peter Bacho; Fred Cordova
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780295986425
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Science, Memoir, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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