|  This
exhibit explores the challenges and issues that confronted
Filipinos – following the annexation of the Philippines
as a U.S. territory in 1898 – as colonial subjects
and “nationals” and their struggle to acquire
full citizenship status as immigrants in this country from
the turn of the 20th century to the present.
It will
highlight the unique contributions of Filipinos in the development
of Hawai’i’ and West Coast agribusiness industries,
seafood and cannery industries in Alaska, in the U.S. military,
public service, in the literature and the arts, sports,
and more recently, as doctors and nurses in America’s
health-care industry. Through these 100 photo murals and
images, the social history and the development of the Filipino
community in the United States will be told and vividly
portrayed.
The
project director for this exhibit is Dean Alegado, Associate
Professor and Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at
the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. |
