{"product_id":"pinoy-capital-benito-vergara-9781592136650","title":"Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City","description":"\u003cp\u003eHome to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed \"the Pinoy Capital of the United States.\" In this fascinating ethnographic study of the lives of Daly City residents, Benito Vergara shows how Daly City has become a magnet for the growing Filipino American community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVergara challenges rooted notions of colonialism here, addressing the immigrants' identities, connections and loyalties. Using the lens of transnationalism, he looks at the \"double lives\" of both recent and established Filipino Americans. Vergara explores how first-generation Pinoys experience homesickness precisely because Daly City is filled with reminders of their homeland's culture, like newspapers, shops and festivals. Vergara probes into the complicated, ambivalent feelings these immigrants have-toward the Philippines and the United States-and the conflicting obligations they have presented by belonging to a thriving community and yet possessing nostalgia for the homeland and people they left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benito Vergara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1592136656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781592136650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/13\/2009 pg. 20","brand":"Benito Vergara","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520555467007,"sku":"9781592136650","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_baa48a15-840c-4149-8bd4-34471dee87fe.jpg?v=1762885781","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pinoy-capital-benito-vergara-9781592136650","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}