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Kuya Book 01 – Coming Full Circle by Leny Strobel / Overview & Thoughts

Kuya Book 01 – Coming Full Circle by Leny Strobel / Overview & Thoughts

By kuyachris|2020-11-19T21:32:38-08:00May 25th, 2020|Education, Podcast|

New project! This is the first experiment of exploring books on the podcast. I'll be giving an overview Leny Strobel's Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans. This is a pivotal book in FilAm literature and it has a lot of wisdom and lessons within it. It's an informal overview, with specific quotes thrown in to highlight the main takeaways. Coming Full Circle is a project of decolonization based off interviews with post-1965 Filipino Americans . Through a process that Strobel calls "fishing for knowledge" through books and interviews, she organizes themes of decolonization under the categories of Naming, Reflection, and Action. This framework is greatly influenced by Paulo Friere and his idea that oppressed peoples need to name the source of their oppression before they can enact change upon it. 11 generative themes of decolonization are presented, alongside a literature review of relevant material and research.

The Miseducation of the Filipino

The Miseducation of the Filipino

By kuyachris|2019-09-06T02:03:24-07:00April 15th, 2015|Education, Podcast, Transcription|

Education is a vital weapon of a people striving for economic emancipation, political independence and cultural renaissance. We are such a people. Philippine education therefore must produce Filipinos who are aware of their country's problems, who understand the basic solution to these problems, and who care enough to have courage to work and sacrifice for their country's salvation.

A Divided Filipino Home: Brown vs. Dark Brown Pride

A Divided Filipino Home: Brown vs. Dark Brown Pride

By kuyachris|2017-03-10T01:42:25-08:00March 18th, 2015|Articles, Education|

The Filipino American community is lacking a strong sense of ethnic identity and cultural power because of the underlying rivalries between internal groups. Whether the issue is economic class, birthplace, spoken language, physical appearance, or the spelling of an ethnic identifier, the behavior to generalize and draw boundaries – factionalism – is what truly prevents Filipino Americans from unifying as a strong and powerful collective group.