BOOKS
This section contains downloadable versions of previously published works on or about Filipinos in Hawaii that are either out of print or difficult to locate.
All materials here are copyrighted and should be properly cited when used.
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Ota Camp: Filipinos in Hawaii Fight Eviction, by Melinda Tria Kerkvliet, is a documentary narrative of the 1971-2007 struggle by the residents of a Filipino labor camp to organize and fight their fraudulent eviction notice. Set during an era of community awareness of exploitation by land owners of the working classes, Ota Camp: Filipinos in Hawaii Fight Eviction details the relationships forged between plantation families and professionals from the universities, social service agencies and politicians.
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Unbending Cane: Pablo Manlapit, A Filipino Labor Leader in Hawaii, by Melinda Tria Kerkvliet, is a biography of Pablo Manlapit, a pioneering labor leader for Filipino laborers in Hawaii. Well educated (the first Filipino to pass Hawaii's bar exam) and charismatic, Manlapit was also the first labor leader to reach out to labor leaders of other ethnic groups. As such, he was feared and condemned by Hawaii's power structure which was controlled by the Hawaii Sugar Planters Association. Detailed in Unbending Cane are the professional as well as familial challenges he faced in the early years of Filipino sugar contract labor in Hawaii.
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Manila Workers' Unions: 1900 - 1950, by Melinda Tria Kerkvliet, examines the emergence and development of Philippine labor federations and unions -- in particular, the tobacco factory worker unions -- in the first half of the twentieth century. As the American colonial power took hold in the Philippines, numerous forms of labor organizing developed in parallel to the establishment of industrial capitalism. Manila Workers' Unions: 1900 - 1950 is based on Melinda's Ph.D. dissertation.
Melinda Tria Kerkvliet received her doctorate in history from the University of Hawaii. She is a former director of Operation Manong (aka Office of Multicultural Student Services) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research interests included worker histories in Hawaii, the Philippines and Viet Nam; Philippine Masonry; and Philippine public school teachers.
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Shrouded in Mystery: The Unveiling of the Hanapepe Massacre, by Catherine Pascual Lo and Karl H. Y. Lo is based on a chapter of a commemorative book envisioned to be published for the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Hanapepe Massacre. The commemorative book was not published, so Catherine and Karl Lo decided to self-publish their chapter in a separate book. The present volume, Shrouded in Mystery: The Unveiling of the Hanapepe Massacre, brings together multiple source materials -- previously known materials as well as untapped, primary source materials -- to construct a more nuanced and comprehensive account of the 1924 event. The result is a narrative and source book that poses many questions and possible interpretations that have been evaded or suppressed over time. The volume available above is the 2026 Revised Edition.
Catherine Pascual Lo was born and raised in the Philippines. She moved to Kauai in 1954 and graduated from Kauai High School. After receiving a Masters of Librarianship from the University of Washingron, Seatlle, Catherine served as a public librarian in Honolulu, Kauai and Michigan. She retired as head librarian from Kauai Community College.
Karl H. Y. Lo was born in Makaweli, Kauai at Makaweli Hospital, where wounded plantation workers and special police received medical care after the incident. Karl grew up in Kukuiula and graduated from Kauai High School. He served several decades in the U.S. Coast Guard after which he received several Associate in Science degrees from Kauai Community College.
Filipino American Ethnicity, Education and Diaspora in Hawaii is a 2021 compilation by Jonathan Y. Okamura of selected journal articles and book chapters previously published 1983-2021. Okamura was born and raised on Maui (yonsei, 4th generation Japanese American), attended high school and college in California and received his graduated education in London, completing his dissertation fieldwork on Filipino immigrants in Honolulu. From 2000 to 2021 Okamura was a faculty member in the University of Hawaii at Manoa Ethnic Studies Department, College of Social Sciences.
Okamura hopes to encourage others, especially young Filipino American students and scholars, to pursue research on Filipino Americans in Hawaii, an understudied but important subject: Understanding the historical and contemporary experiences of Filipino Americans can inform us immensely about the workings of race, ethnicity and racism in Hawaii and the continental United States. (from the Preface).
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The Filipinos in Hawaii: An Annotated Bibliography is an annotated bibliography of published and unpublished research collected and annotated by Ruben R. Alcantara (with Nancy S. Alconcel, John Berger and Cesar Wycoco). Published in 1977, this volume is the sixth in a "Hawaii Series" of annotated bibliographies published by the Social Sciences and Linguistic Institute of the University of Hawaii (subsequently merged into the University of Hawaii Social Science Research Institute) and were "devoted to the tracing, compilation and evaluation of the existing literature on the various peoples and cultures" of Hawaii. Copy used for digitizing courtesy of Operation Manong, University of Hawaii at Manoa (aka Office of Multicultural Student Services).
Cite as: Alcantara, Ruben R. The Filipinos in Hawaii: An Annotated Bibliography. Social Sciences and Linguistics Institute, Hawaii Series No. 6. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii, 1977. http://efilarchives.org/publications (accessed [date downloaded]).
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Sakada: Filipino Adaptation in Hawaii is a 1981 publication of research conducted by Ruben R. Alcantara of Filipino plantation workers in Hawaii. Included are historical and sociological overviews of Filipino plantation workers and Alcantara's own descriptions and analysis of their family lives and community relations. Original publication and permission to publish online was granted by the University Press of America (Washington, D.C.). Copy used for digitizing courtesy of Operation Manong, University of Hawaii at Manoa (aka Office of Multicultural Student Services).
Cite as: Alcantara, Ruben R. Sakada: Filipino Adaptation in Hawaii. Washington, D.C.: University Press of American, 1981. http://efilarchives.org/publications (accessed [date downloaded]).
Click [here] to view or download Sakada: Filipino Adaptation in Hawaii (190 pages, 26MB).
Out of This Struggle: The Filipinos in Hawaii is a 1981 publication of the Education (Printed) Committee of the Filipino 75th Anniversary Commemoration Commission. This Commission was created by the 1977 Hawaii State Legislature, through Enabling Act 181, to oversee the 75th anniversary of Filipino immigration to Hawaii. Various authors contributed to the writing of the text, but their contributions to specific chapters are not identified. Luis V. Teodoro, Jr. served as overall editor for the publication, with foreward by Danilo E/ Ponce, M.D. and drawings by Francisco "Corky" Trinidad. Publication was by the University Press of Hawaii with funding, in part, through a special appropriation by the Hawaii State Legislature.
A photograph section appears without pagination between chapters 4 and 5. It is included in a separate file below.
Cite as: Teodoro, Luis V., editor. Out of This Stuggle: The Filipinos in Hawaii. Honolulu, HI: University Press of Hawaii, 1981. http://efilarchives.org/publications (accessed [date downloaded]).
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Click [here] to view or download Out of This Struggle photos (24 pages, 38MB).
A supplemental pamphlet, The Filipinos in Hawaii: the First 75 Years, was also published in 1981 by the Hawaii Filipino News [go to pamphlet section].
Ti Biag Idiay Kampo Siete: Istoria Iti Maysa A Kamaan A Pilipino Idiay Waimanalo, Haway (Life In Camp Seven: The Story Of A Filipino Family in Waimanalo, Hawaii) is a 1974 publication of the General Assistance Center for the Pacific, College of Education, University of Hawaii. Documentary of the Rosete family (Antonia, Bonifacio and Conchita) as told and illustrated by Mary Ann Lynch. Ilokano text by Prescilla L. Espiritu and Tagalog text by Belen C. Ongteco. Consultation by Esperanza G. Labez and Nancy Foon Young. Original funding by Office of Education Grant Number OEC-9-73-0151.
Cite as: Lynch, Mary Ann. Ti Biag Idiay Kampo Siete (Life in Camp Seven). Honolulu, HI: General Assistance Center for the Pacific, College of Education, University of Hawaii, 1974. http://efilarchives.org/publications (accessed [date downloaded]).
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Ating Tao: Our People (The Filipinos in Hawaii) is a 1976 publication of the General Assistance Center for the Pacific, College of Education (Educational Foundations), University of Hawaii. Edited by Bernadette Suguitan Ledesma. photographs by Robin Lee (unless otherwise noted), illustrations courtesy of Corky Trinidad, and typographical assistance by Lani Wright. Funded by Office of Education Grant Number C391-75-0006.
Cite as: Ledesma, Bernadette Suguitan, ed. Ating Tao: Our People (The Filipinos in Hawaii). Honolulu, HI: General Assistance Center for the Pacific, College of Education, University of Hawaii, 1976. http://efilarchives.org/publications (accessed [date downloaded]).
Click [here] to view or download Ating Tao: Our People (121 pages, 29MB).
Ines Cayaban: A Life History is a 1991 publication of the Hawaii Department of Education, Project E.S.T.E.E.M. (Eliminating Sex-Typing in Education and Employment Matters), a Federally funded project under Title IV, P.L. 88-352, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 403, Fiscal Year 1989-90 and 1990-91. As told to Yvonne Yarber. Photographs by Curt Madison (unless otherwise noted). Project Directors: Jackie Young (1989-90) and Linda Andrade Wheeler (1991).
Cite as: Yarber, Yvonne, ed. Ines Cayaban: A Life History. Honolulu, HI: Hawaii Department of Education, Project E.S.T.E.E.M., 1991. http://efilarchives.org/publications (accessed [date downloaded]).
Click [here] to view or download Ines Cayaban: A Life History (56 pages, 74MB).
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