Monrayo: Tomorrow's Memories CL (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Stud) - Hardcover

Raymundo, Angeles Monrayo; Monrayo, Angeles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082482671X ISBN 13: 9780824826710

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2002

Synopsis

Angeles Monrayo (1912-2000) began her diary on January 10, 1924, a few months before she and her father and older brother moved from a sugar plantation in Waipahu to Pablo Manlapit's strike camp in Honolulu. Here for the first time is a young Filipino girl's view of life in Hawai'i and central California in the first decades of the twentieth century - a significant and often turbulent period for immigrant and migrant labor in both settings. Angeles' vivid, simple language takes us into the heart of an early Filipino family as its members come to terms with poverty and racism and struggle to build new lives in a new world. But even as Angeles recounts the hardships of immigrant life, her diary of everyday things never lets us forget that she and the people around her went to school and church, enjoyed music and dancing, told jokes, went to the movies, and fell in love. Essays by Jonathan Okamura and Dawn Mabalon enlarge on Angeles' account of early working-class Filipinos and situate her experience in the larger history of Filipino migration to the United States.

About this title

About the Author:

Rizaline R. Raymundo is the oldest child of Angeles and Alejandro Raymundo. A retired school teacher, she is a member of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 082482671X
• ISBN 13: 9780824826710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Raymundo Rizaline R