ASIANAM 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Umbrella Organization, Family Wage, Reproductive Labor
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Community formation: empire, nation, race, class gender. Identity formation also because: violence consolidated community 104 west coast: over 30 anti-filipina/o incidents, violence: rendered regionalism, factionalism, linguistic differences, and class divisions increasingly unimportant. b. i. Mobilized together as a community to move against violence: organizations: filipino community of stockton and vicinity (1927) umbrella organization c. i. Ethnic organizations: hometown & mutual aid groups c. ii. People who are prominent have more class or political resources. c. iii. Key to give support and as an alternate political space. c. iv. Religious, political and community org: fraternal and masonic orders c. v. sustenance and dignity c. vi. Alternative political space: how is space then reconfigured? d. i. El dorado street downtown, south of main street, in oriental quarter d. ii. Chinese and japanese immigrants late 1920s: little manila or el dorado d. iii. Significance of environment d. iv. 1. d. iv. 2. d. iv. 3. d. iv. 4. d. iv. 5. Act as employment places, post offices, banks, social and political space. d. iv. 6.