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11/08/2017

Start your holiday shopping NOW! Filipino American History Month can be celebrated year-round with the books, totes, posters and perks you get when you join the campaign for JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE: THE LIFE OF LARRY ITLIONG and three more children's books on Filipino American history. Get books and cool stuff for your fam and friends for the holidays! https://igg.me/at/Journey-for-Justice/x/17535913

If they meet their goal, a percentage of profits benefits FANHS and LIttle Manila Foundation in Stockton.

Get your Christmas shopping done early this year! When you purchase a tier simply add a gift card and we'll send the recipient this card letting them know their gift is on its way by January 2018! Don't forget 5% of the profit goes to Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) and Little Manila Foundation https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/journey-for-justice--2 #/

11/04/2017

Writer Gayle Romasanta teamed up with Dr. Mabalon on the new Larry Itliong children’s book. Stockton raised, these two went to daycare together (and were a comedy duo a few times in 1999)! See how over 20 years of friendship culminated in the first filipino american children’s history book. http://bit.ly/2ybKIlS

10/20/2017

Dear friends and family: First, thank you for your overwhelming support of my first books, especially Little Manila Is in the Heart, which is almost in its 5th printing. That book was for our elders and ancestors. My new book project is for the next generation. It is the story I wish I learned as a child: the life story of Larry D. Itliong, Stocktonian, labor organizer, leader of the Delano Grape Strike and co-founder of the United Farm Workers. I am honored and privileged to author it with my longtime friends Gayle Romasanta and Andre Sibayan.

Pre-order it now by clicking the link and supporting our IndieGoGo campaign for this book and for three more books on Filipino American historical figures that will be published by Gayle's new venture, Bridge + Delta, a Stockton-based publishing company which aims to bring Filipino American history books to children. Please support our campaign in any way you can: from $10 to $1k+, or simply by sharing with all your contacts. A portion of the proceeds will benefit FANHS and Little Manila.

Why are we doing it this way, going the independent route and crowdfunding? Because we wanted to bring our history to our next generation with full editorial control. Because we have faith that our community wants and needs these books. Because Filipino American history is American history. I can't wait for my nieces and nephews and godchildren to see themselves in the books they read.

Thank you to everyone who has brought this project to this point, including Johnny Itliong!

Creating the first Filipino American history books for kids | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

10/12/2017

Please donate to Little Manila to help us restore the vandalized front of our Little Manila Center. littlemanila.org.

[FILIPINO AMERICAN SCHOLARS] Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon is Associate Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses in United States history, race and ethnicity, food history, and US/Philippines relations. She received an M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA and a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University.

Her research focuses on Filipina/o American history, historic and cultural preservation, and the Filipina/o American foodways. She is co-founder of the Little Manila Foundation and serves as National Scholar on the Filipino American National Historical Society Board of Trustees.

She is the author of Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California (Duke University Press, 2013), which was awarded an honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award (best first book) by the Organization of American Historians.

Her essay “As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating and Becoming Filipina/o American Before World War II,” was published in Eating Asian America, ed. Robert Ku, Anita Mannur, and Martin Manalansan (NYU Press, 2013). In 2013, she was named to the list of the Filipina Women’s Network 100 Most Influential Filipinas in the World.

To learn more, check out http://www.littlemanila.org/

02/25/2017

Hi Everyone - I'm no longer in business and I bake almost entirely for fundraisers now. Thanks for stopping by!

02/01/2016

Thanks for the visits and likes -- but I'm in fairly permanent retirement. Thank you for ordering in the past! I'll post when I bake for fundraisers.

10/25/2015

MABUHAY Larry Itliong, 1913-1977! Today is the first LARRY ITLIONG DAY as designated by the state of California. Celebrate the life of the veteran Filipina/o American labor leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers in his hometown of STOCKTON today at 2pm with a free screening of Marissa Aroy's award-winning documentary Delano Manongs, followed by a brief talk about Filipina/o farm organizing history and Q&A about Larry Itliong with me, at our Little Manila Center, 521 E. Main St., Stockton.
http://www.littlemanila.org/

10/09/2015

Coming out of baking business retirement to bake again! Busy all day today in my kitchen making cascaron/carioca and ube and chocolate cupcakes. Later tonight Jesse will make his famous Filipino spaghetti with hot dogs. We're selling them all tomorrow -- and you can have them if you come by Westlake School for the Performing Arts fundraiser all day tomorrow 10-5pm. We are raising funds for their annual Nutcracker at the Palace of Fine Arts. So proud that my inaanak Mahalaya is playing Clara this year! That's her in the little pic below.

wspa, dance, ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, hula, music, singing, daly city, south san francisco, westlake school, malu rivera peoples, class, school, modern

08/19/2015

Less than three weeks before we celebrate the 50th anniversary one of the most significant moments in 20th century US history -- the Delano Grape Strike. Registration is only $20 for Saturday and Sunday in Delano, Sept. 5 & 6. Hotels are sold out in Delano but there are lots of hotels in nearby Wasco and Bakersfield. Please join us for this once in a lifetime event, sponsored by Delano Filipino American National Historical Society and FANHS National.

This coming Labor Day weekend, the newly formed Delano chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS/Delano) and its national parent organization will host a series of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike. The organizers are striving to stage…

07/15/2015

Please sign!

The renaming of the street, which is in the Little Manila Historic Site, would honor Stocktonian Larry Itliong, a community leader in the Stockton, CA Filipina/o American community, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, and one of the most influential farm labor organizers in the nation. Larry Itli…

11/19/2013

Hi everyone -- I'm taking a hiatus from my baking biz for a few months to focus on my health, book events, and on my community work with Little Manila Foundation and FANHS. I'll post when I come back. Thank you everyone for all your love and support!

08/27/2013

LA folks: I will be signing copies of Little Manila Is In the Heart @ the Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture in Los Angeles! Please come by: http://filamarts.org/fpac. 2-4pm Sat 9/8 and 12-2 Sun 9/7 @ Philipppine Expressions booth.

We will unveil our newest program, The Saysay Project, which aims to engage our community members to share their stories, and to document and preserve these stories for future generations.