Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans - Softcover

Strobel, Leny Mendoza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1522842373 ISBN 13: 9781522842378

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

In this second edition of Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans, Professor EJR David writes a new FOREWORD and the author has a NEW INTRODUCTION.Coming Full Circle is about the healing of the Filipino colonized psyche through the recovery and re-imagination of Filipino identity and culture. It is about the emergence from the 'culture of silence' to critical consciousness that is able to develop new conceptualizations and frameworks about the Filipino American experience.Decolonization is a psychological process that enables the colonized to understand and overcome the depths of alienation and marginalization caused by the psychic and epistemic violence of colonization. Decolonization transforms the consciousness of the colonized through the reclamation of the Filipino cultural self and makes space for the recovery and healing of traumatic memory, and healing leading to different forms of activism. It is an open-ended process. It is a new way of seeing. As a way of healing, it is also a promise and a hope.

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About the Author

Leny Mendoza Strobel is Professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She is the Project Director of the Center for Babaylan Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1522842373
• ISBN 13: 9781522842378
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 276