Approaching the Filipino American Experience from a Sociological Perspective
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This is an overview of the "sociological imagination" and how to use it to understand Filipino American immigration historically and in the contemporary period. Overview of the rise of capitalism in the U.S. and its dependence on racialized labor as the context for understanding immigration.
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