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• The Story of Nero, the Mexipino Superhero

  Mojica-Academia, Jennifer

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  Nero learns that his multicultural identity is a superpower! The author dedicated this book "to my daughter, Graceful Ballon, my grandson, Adrian Baca, and to all of the Mexipino's out there. May you always embrace your inner power and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Mexipino

  Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego

  Guevarra, Rudy P., Jr

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  From Bibliocommons: "Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, California. Rudy Guevarra traces the earliest interactions of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strike!

  the Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights

  Brimner, Larry Dane

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  Filipino and Chicanx farm workers united to fight for better working conditions. From School Library Journal Reviews: "Brimner's comprehensive history of the United Farm Workers (UFW) begins not with Cesar Chavez but with the action of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bruno Mars

  London, Martha

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  According to Newsweek, Bruno Mars has Puerto Rican and Filipino ancestry.

• United to Strike

  A Story of the Delano Grape Workers

  Zenk, Molly

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  From Bibliocommons: "Budding reporter, Tala Mendoza, thinks life in 1965 Delano, California, is boring. But that's before her father and other members of the local Filipino grape workers' union vote to strike. While the strike brings…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Latinos of Asia

  How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

  Ocampo, Anthony Christian, 1981-

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  "Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what "color" you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The First Asians in the Americas

  a Transpacific History

  Luis, Diego Javier, 1992-

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  This is about the history of Asians in general in the Americas. From Bibliocommons: "The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire--from Manila to Acapulco and beyond--and its implications for the history…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soldiers and Kings

  Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

  De León, Jason, 1977-

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  This book won the National Book Award in Nonfiction in 2024! In the introduction, Jason De León talks about how his background influences his career as an anthropologist. He states that as a kid, he "grew accustomed to being the new kid in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hola and Goodbye

  Una Familia in Stories

  Miscolta, Donna

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  From Bibliocommons: "Donna Miscolta is a Mexican/Filipina author who grew up in National City, CA, and now lives in Seattle."

• Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

  Lapera, Anna

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  From Author Website: "Anna Lapera is a pushcart prize-nominated author and educator in the DC area. She comes from a Guatemalan mother and Hawaiian-Filipino-German father, and was raised all over the world."

• The Mexican Flyboy

  Vea, Alfredo, 1952-

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  Alfredo Véa had mixed Filipino and Mexican heritage. From Gale Literature: "In a speech published in 1997 as "Caliban and Prospero No More," Véa identified himself as Mexican-Yaqui-Filipino-American."

• Woman of Light

  a Novel

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali

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  In an interview with Poets & Writers Magazine, author Kali Fajardo-Anstine said that her great-grandma was "of Pueblo descent, Mexican, and Belgian" and her great-grandfather "was from the Philippines, by way of California."

• You Had Me at Hola

  A Novel

  Daria, Alexis

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  The main character of this book has Latinx and Filipinx heritage.

• Delano Manongs

  Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers

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  From Bibliocommons: "The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement’s finest hours – The Delano Grape Strike of 1965 that…Read moreRead more of this annotation