{"product_id":"pinoy-capital-the-filipino-nation-in-daly-city-9781592136643","title":"Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed “the Pinoy Capital of the United States.” In this fascinating ethnographic study of the lives of Daly City residents, Benito Vergara shows how Daly City has become a magnet for the growing Filipino American community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVergara challenges rooted notions of colonialism here, addressing the immigrants’ identities, connections and loyalties. Using the lens of transnationalism, he looks at the “double lives” of both recent and established Filipino Americans. Vergara explores how first-generation Pinoys experience homesickness precisely because Daly City is filled with reminders of their homeland’s culture, like newspapers, shops and festivals. Vergara probes into the complicated, ambivalent feelings these immigrants have—toward the Philippines and the United States—and the conflicting obligations they have presented by belonging to a thriving community and yet possessing nostalgia for the homeland and people they left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003ePinoy Capital\u003ci\u003e is a colorful and nuanced ethnographic foray into the social institutions and quotidian lives of Filipino Americans living in Daly City. Vergara is a gifted writer and his work delves closely on the affective and reciprocal relationships and practices of Filipino Americans as immigrants. This is a welcome and important study, and Vergara puts forward important and innovative assertions and arguments that will have repercussions on debates about Filipinos in the United States.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMartin Manalansan\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and editor of \u003ci\u003eCultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. A Repeated Turning \u003cbr\u003e2. Little Manila \u003cbr\u003e3. Looking Forward: Narratives of Obligation \u003cbr\u003e4. Spreading the News: Newspapers and Transnational Belongings \u003cbr\u003e5. Looking Back: Indifference, Responsibility, and the Anti-Marcos Movement in the United States \u003cbr\u003e6. Betrayal and Belonging \u003cbr\u003e7. Citizenship and Nostalgia \u003cbr\u003e8. Pinoy Capital \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041556005207,"sku":"9781592136643","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781592136643.jpg?v=1750950767","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pinoy-capital-the-filipino-nation-in-daly-city-9781592136643","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}