San Francisco's International Hotel : mobilizing the Filipino American community in the anti-eviction movement

San Francisco's International Hotel : mobilizing the Filipino American community in the anti-eviction movement / Estella Habal.

How a protest galvanized a cultural identity for Filipino Americans.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Habal, Estella, 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
Older people > Housing > California > San Francisco.
Eviction > California > San Francisco.
Filipino Americans > California > San Francisco.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Elder Abuse.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Eldercare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Eviction
Filipino Americans
Older people > Housing
California > San Francisco
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Coming home to a fresh crop of rice"
  • Manilatown, Manongs, and the student radicals
  • A home or a parking lot? Human rights vs. property rights, 1968-69
  • "Peace with a lease" : renovation and revolution, 1969-74
  • The tiger leaps : fighting the Four Seas Investment Corporation, 1974-77
  • "Makibaka! Dare to struggle!" : the IHTA and the KDP, 1977
  • People's power versus propertied elites, 1977
  • The fall of the I-Hotel : eviction and demolition, 1977-79
  • Conclusion : the rise of the I-Hotel, 1979-2005.

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