Professor, Dad, Friend, Brother, Grandson, His family is from Badian, Cebu and his great-grandparents left Cebu in 1919. His family is also Japanese, and his great-grandfather left Niigata in 1895. He grew up in Kahului, Maui, and is the youngest of four. He grew up in a working class background. He has been back to the Philippines -- Once to study at UP Diliman and another time to find family in Cebu. He ended up finding family and has got to be one of the most memorial experiences of his lifelihood. During this podcast episode, we talk about from his personal struggles, growing/upbringing experience through diverse conversations of what has been like growing up in Hawaiʻi as a mixed identity of both Filipino and Japanese.
BOOKS AND RESOURCES
mentioned by Dr. Saranillio today: "Blueʻs Hanging" by Lois Ann Yamanaka
Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai'i by Candace Fujikane
Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910 Paperback – April 1, 1997 by Reynaldo Clemena Ileto
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita Dropping Keys by Haffid
Visit https://nyu.academia.edu/DeanSaranillio --
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