Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes / Albert Samaha.
"A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from their birthplace. As a rising tide of inequality and discrimination threatened to engulf her, her brother Spanky-a rising pop star back in Manila, now working as a luggage handler at San Franciso airport, his singing carrying no farther than a restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf-and others of their generation, he wondered whether their decision to abandon a middle-class existence in the Philippines had been worth the cost. Excavating his family's history back to the region's unique geopolitical roots in Spanish colonialism, Japanese occupation, and American intervention, Samaha fits his family's arc into the wider story of global migration as determined by chess moves among superpowers. And by relating their personal history with warmth and affection but also clear-eyed skepticism, 'Concepcion' explores what it might mean to reckon with imperialism's unjust legacy, to live with contradiction and hope, to fight for the unrealized ideals of an inherited homeland"-- Publisher's description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593086087
- ISBN: 0593086082
- Physical Description: 384 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Score -- Departures -- Conversion -- Genesis -- Young Colonist -- Allies -- Collision Sport -- Moving. |
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Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 9 of 9 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Abington Community Library | 929.2 SAMAHA (Text) | 50687011749051 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Albright Memorial Library | 929.2 SAMAHA (Text) | 50686016104148 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | 929.20973 SAM (Text) | 33240004937630 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Cambria County Library | 929.209 S187c (Text) | 85131001809087 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Reading Public Library RPL - Main | 929.20973 Sam (Text) | 33223008726290 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Wernersville Public Library | 929.20973 SAM (Text) | 33249023990835 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Allentown Public Library | 929.209 SAMA (Text) | 34455006834507 | Adult Nonfiction 1st FL | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | 929.209 (Text) | 33062009508533 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | 929.209 S187c (Text) | 31901004544963 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |