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List of History and
Socio-Political Books
 Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding
by Nicanor Perlas
Newfilipina.com Review:
Nicanor Perlas, a Filipino, has written a book on imbuing globalization with values and humanity. His book is called The U.N. and civil society's world leaders recognize using his ideas to mobilize and create CSO (civil society organization) alliances to counter the elitism of corporate globalization.
Nicanor Perlas was awarded the Right Livelihood Award and was voted to win by previous Nobel Prize winners.
The RLA award is considered to be the Alternative Nobel Prize as it has no categories and takes into consideration collective efforts and not just individual ones. see these links for more info:
http://www.rightlivelihood.se/recip/2003/perlas.htm
http://www.rightlivelihood.se/award.htm
--BagongPinay
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Risks and Rewards: Stories from the Philippine Migration Trail
by by Inter Press Service Asia Pacific, Bangkok
Book Description/Reviews:
Why do so many Filipinos need to leave their home to satisfy the basic need for survival and self-advancement? According to a recent issue of a leading U.S. business magazine the Phillipines is "the forerunner of tomorrow's distributed economy, supplying nurses, teachers, techies, and sailors to the global village."
In 2001, millions of Filipinos worked in 162 countries around the world, sending $6.2 billion back to families and bill payments in the motherland.
A Filipina worker in Rome sums it up, "We are the Philippines' main export product." To give a human story to the Philippines' leading dollar-earning-natural-resource, here is a book that shares the stories of Filipino overseas workers (OFWs).
This book is a collection of 36 articles about OFWs in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East that explores the lives they are building away from home. There is a focus on issues of relationships and family, reproductive health and sexuality.
The Philippine experience illustrates the collective experiences for an estimated 15 million Asians who compose much of the workforces for technical skills, services and those "who also do [the] dangerous, dirty jobs" around the world. OFWs also satisfy the needs that developing countries have for key family nurturing and caring roles --- domestic help, child care, nursing, and teaching.
Risks and Rewards: Stories from the Philippines Migration Trail, is a lens through which to examine the costs of a country's labor migration policy. It also holds valuable insight for all nations and societies on globalization, specifically, the human issues of "human resource trading".
A joint project of the IPS news agency and the Ford Foundation of the Philippines, here is a book that not only helps uncover the risks for migrant workers but also discusses reasons why people have to leave their homeland to work abroad. To request your copy of this book send email to ipsasia@ipsnews.net. You can also visit the IPS web site at http://www.ipsnews.net/migration/index.html.
(A BagongPinay Book of the Month, September 2002)
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Filipino Peasant Women : Exploitation and Resistance
by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Book Description/Reviews:
Book description: Here is a book that presents a compelling example of the power of the powerless. In it, author Ligaya Lindio-McGovern offers the first study of the everyday lives of Filipino peasant women and their means of resisting the exploitative system in which they find themselves. While illustrating the increasing exploitation and poverty these women face, the author challenges the conventional portrayal of them as submissive victims.
A Filipina from the peasant class herself, the author has unprecedented access to the women workers in this militarized society as well as rich insights into the lives of Third World women. Her interviews with membes of the National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines and its local chapter, peasant Women of Mindoro, detail women's landlessness, poverty and disempowerment.
The author illuminates the intersection of gender systems, development policies, the International Monetary Fund, colonial history, militarization, and capitalism interlock to perpetuate the exploitation.
At the heart of the book, however, is the contention that the best solutions to the exploitation of peasants come from the peasants themselves. Stories of the women's experiences told form their own perspectives illustrate how these owmen have resisted their oppression through organization and consciousness-raising, land occupation, the founding of worker collecitves and consumer cooperatives, and the establishment of day care centers. Lindio-McGovern identifies the creative alternatives such grassroots organizaitons can offer for shaping development policies and empowerment strategies for poor women and their families.
Offering a feminist methodology for studying Third World women in militarized zones, Filipino Peasant Women is essential reading in the fields of women's studies, anthropolgy, sociology, and Asian studies.
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IN OUR IMAGE: America's Empire in the Philippines
by Stanley Karnow, copyright 1989, Ballantine Books, 475 pages.
Book Description/Reviews:
If you haven't included this book on your shelf you must now! "In Our Image" is a comprehensive, Pulitzer Prize Winning, book that documents the history of the relationship between the United States and the Philippines, beginning with the Spanish Inquisition. The most comprehensive text on Philippine history of its kind, In Our Image presents a vivid narrative of this dynamic period in history, which makes it so much more than a reference book. Chock full of facts and historical photographs, this is a one-of-a-kind text opens the window to a world of history that is so underrepresented by many American History text books, exposing both the positive and negative impact left by American behavior in the Philippines.
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ONE HUNDRED ACCLAIMED TAGALOG MOVIES: Sineng Mundo, Best of Philippine Cinema
by Mel Tobias, Copyright 1998, Peanut Butter Publishing, 255 pages.
Book Description/Reviews:
One Hundred Acclaimed Tagalog Movies, by author and film guru Mel Tobias, is one book that truly any aklatan should not be without. In this book, Tobias celebrates the colorful and exciting history of Philippine Cinema through his examination of 100 films, created by some of the most noteworthy directors that create this history á Eddie Romero, Ishmael Bernal, Peque Gallaga, Luis Nepomuceno, and Mike de Leon, Marylou Diaz Abaya and the many talented actors that have graced the silver screen, that are now seen as true Filipino icons for their work á Eddie Garcia, Leopoldo Salcedo, Nida Blanca, Gina Alajar, Nora Aunor, Christopher de Leon, Fernando Poe Jr. and many more. Each film is described and reviewed by the author, and contains interesting photos, and footnotes.
Through reviewing each film in chronological order, readers can also understand the dynamic history of the Philippine Film industry, tracing the legacies of the major studios like Sampaguita and LVN, as well as tracing the major influences that have shaped film genres as they were created in the Philippines--the directors that made their mark in their respective genres and changed the course of history for film-viewing audiences. From the Îbold£ cinema of Celso Ad Castillo and Tikoy Aguiluz, to the Îlost£ propaganda films banned during the Marcos Regime, this book documents history as seen through the eyes of the Philippines£ most celebrated auteurs.
One Hundred Acclaimed Tagalog Movies presents Philippine cinema as it should be admired and respected for its deep impression on society and the rather colorful tapestry that is Philippine history. In his introduction Mel Tobias comments ã·My book refrains from pontificating as, after all, movies should be Îentertainment with substance£ and are either good, or bad, cinema. As a Filipino, I want Tagalog movies to remind me of my origins, to be entertained, informed, and to nurture the reflections of Philippine humanity as celluloid. Films mirror the many and varied aspects of Philippine life. They are a window to my country, its people and myself...ä This book is guaranteed to change preexisting notions about the quality of Philippine filmmaking and presents each film as it should be viewed¸not only for its ability to entertain, but also as a mark in history and culture.
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The Filipino Americans : From 1763 to the Present : Their History, Culture, and Traditions
by Veltisezar B. Bautista
The publisher , August 16, 1997
The most comprehensive book on Filipino Americans.
The Filipino Americans: Their History, Culture, and Traditions by Veltisezar Bautista provides a vista by which others may view the Filipino community and its leaders about their history, values, customs, and traditions. The book gives a better understanding of the Filipino mind, attitude, and character. It also illustrates the significant contributions made by Filipino Americans to American culture, society, cuisine, economy, politics, sports, and entertainment. The book is divided into four parts: Part I--Historical Background; Part II--Coming to America; Part III--Filipino Life, Customs, and Traditions; and Part IV--Brief Profiles of Notable Filipino Americans. Part I includes chapters on the Philippine Revolution (1896-1898) and the Philippine American War (1899-1902) to give a historical backdrop for examining Philippine-American relations and for commemorating the centennials of these momentous events, including the Philippine Independence (1898). Bautista, a Filipino American who knows his people well, is the multi-award-winning author of five other nonfiction books.
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The Filipino Mind, Philippine Philosophical Studies II (Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change. Series III, Asia ; Vol. 8)
by Leonardo N. Mercado
BagongPinay says: Pinoys, in the process of a people searching for its "Filipino Identity" must recognize, first of all both their cultural identity and then their philosophical identity. Mr. Mercado's book The Filipino Mind is an exploration in exactly that context.
This is a deep thinking book and a cultural/philosophical mind-bending book for both Pinoys born and raised in the homeland or abroad. ---P.P.D.
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Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity
by Maria P.P. Root (Editor)
Customer Review at Amazon.com:
Edgar Hopida from San Diego, CA , 04/21/98 ---
Finally! A book that covers the contemporary issues of Filipino-Americans today. We should have more books like this as required texts for Filipino-American history, Asian American history classes, and sociology classes. I particularly like the subjects of the colonial mentality, decolonization, and Filipino American identity. One of the best books ever written about my culture and ethnicity since Fred Cordova's book. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title.
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Corazon Aquino and the Brushfire Revolution
by Robert H. Reid, Eileen Guerrero
Reviews:
Booknews, Inc. , 05/01/96
The authors, current AP bureau chief in Manila and former AP news editor in Manila, analyze the turbulent years of the Aquino administration and its aftermath, drawing on their journalistic work and research. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Gender, Race and International Relations
by Chris Cunneen and Julie Stubbs,
Excerpt of Isis Book Review by Chat Garcia Ramilo
When Fantasy Leads to Murder
. . ."What happens when men attempt to live out these fantasised relationships and the women involved refuse to comply, refuse to be treated as commodities?" In answering this question, the authors point out this male fantasy becomes lethal for Filipino women when it is integrated back into the relationships that resulted in their deaths and disappearances. The killings are a heightened or extreme instance of domination, which has been mediated by representations of 'Asian' women in general, and Filipino women in particular, as both passive and sexual beings, as the embodiments of male desire.
Cunneen and Stubbs reveal that two interwoven processes become apparent in some of the case studies. First, violence emerges as a resolution to conflict for the male when he attempts to assert absolute dominance and authority and the women resist.
Second, the Filipino women become re-invented as manipulative and self-seeking people who simply marry western men to leave the Philippines. In other words, women's actions are re-interpreted through the lens of a stereotype of Filipino women as sexually promiscuous gold diggers seeking foreign nationalities so they can bail themselves out of the pit of poverty. They are seen at best as complicity in the violence against them, or at worst, deserving of their violent fates. The men, on the other hand, are constructed as victims who merely gave their spouses and partners the punishment they deserved.
. . . In the end, however, this book serves a useful purpose not just in terms of allowing us to understand the phenomenon of murders of Filipino women in Australia in the hands of their male partners, but also to convince policymakers and law enforcement authorities that action is needed now. . . What is required from the Australian government at this point is the political will to conduct an official inquiry and take decisive steps to arrest the intensifying violence directed at Filipino women.
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