Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American

by Peter M. Jamero

Book Overview

"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a 'campo' boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. As...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986425
• ISBN13: 9780295986425
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"