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My HiFi's Recommended Readings. 

Readings on Historic Filipinotown

  • Aure, Christine. 2008. Making the Invisible Visible: A Case Study in Cultural Preservation and Urban Design in Historic Filipinotown. MA Thesis: Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Baluyut,  Pearlie Rose S. 1998. A Glorious History, A Golden Legacy: The Making of a Filipino American Identity and Community. Ameriasia Journal 24(3): 193-216.  
  • De Leon, Lakandiwa M. 2004. Filipinotown and the DJ Scene: Cultural Expression and Identity Affirmation of Filipino American Youth in Los Angeles in Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, editors, Asian American youth : culture, identity, and ethnicity. 
  • Espana-Maram, Linda. 2006. Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila: Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s. New York: Columbia University Press. 
  • Espiritu, A. 1992. The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Town Campaign in Los Angeles: A Study of Filipino American Leadership. MA Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Magalong, Michelle G. 2002.  In Search of" P-town": Filipino American Place (s) in Los Angeles. UCLA Critical Planning Journal.
  • Montoya, Carina Monica. 2008. FIlipinos in Hollywood. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing. --2009. Los Angeles's Historic Filipinotown. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing. 
  • Respicio Koerner, Mae. 2007. Filipinos in Los Angeles. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing. 

Readings on Historic Preservation in Asian and Pacific Islander communities

  • Dubrow, G.L. 2004. Sento on Sixth and Main. Washington DC: Smithsonian Books.
  • Habal, E. 2007. San Francisco’s International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement. Temple University Press: Philadelphia.
  • Hayden, D. 1995. The Power of Place: urban landscapes as public history. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
  • Lee, A.J. 2003. The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Historic Preservation. In Stipe, R.E. ed., A Richer Heritage. Chapel Hill, N.C,: The University of North Carolina Press. 
  • Lin, J. 2001. The Power of Urban Ethnic Places: Cultural heritage and community life. New York: Routledge.
  • Mabalon, D.B. 2003. "Life in Little Manila: Filipinos/as in Stockton, 1917–1972" (Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 2003)
  • Mabalon, D.B., R. Reyes, Filipino American National Historical Society. 2008. Filipinos in Stockton. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. 
  • Mabalon, D.B. 2006. Losing Little Manila: Race and redevelopment in Filipina/o Stockton, California. In Positively no Filipinos allowed, edited by . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.Lisa Lowe, eds. Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 
  • Mazumdar, S., Mazumdar, S., Docuyana, F., and McLaughling, C.M. 2000. “Creating a Sense of Place: The Vietnamese-Americans and Little Saigon,” Journal of Environmental Psychology 20: 319-333.
  • National Park Service' s  Asian Reflections on the American Landscape (2005). 
  • National Park Service's Asian American Heritage Reading List. 
  • Pascual, R. 1996. “Filipino Towns.” Anatalio C. Ubalde (ed.) Filipino American Architecture, Design, and Planning Issues. Flipside Press. Pgs. 41-58. Salomon, LR. 
1998.‘“No Evictions: We Won’t Move!’ The Struggle to Save the I-Hotel,” Roots of Justice: Stories of Organizing in Communities of Color. Berkeley: Chardon Press: 93-104.
  • Toji, D. and K. Umemoto. 2003. The Paradox of Dispersal: ethnic continuity and community development among Japanese Americans in Little Tokyo. AAPI Nexus             1(1):21-46.