![]() | Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American Subjects: Jamero Peter -- Childhood and youth; Jamero Peter -- Family; Filipino Americans -- California -- Livingston -- Biography; Livingston (Calif.) -- Biography; Livingston (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Filipino Americans -- Ethnic iden; "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 that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. As a campo boy, I also began to see the two faces of America, a place where Filipinos were at once welcomed and excluded, were considered equal and were discriminated against. It was a place where the values of fairness and freedom often fell short when Filipinos put them to the test.""-- Peter Jamero Peter Jamero is a community activist and former executive director of the Asian American Recovery Services in San Francisco, assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Washington, and state director of the Washington vocational rehabilitation program. |
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