Illustrations  ix

Acknowledgments  xi

Introduction. Remembering Little Manila  1

Part I. Putting Down Roots: 1898–1940s  23

1. From the Provinces to the Delta: Life on the Eve of Emigration to the United States  25

2. Toiling in the "Valley of Opportunity"  61

3. Making a Filipina/o American World in Stockton  101

Part II. Growing a Community: 1930s–1960s  149

4. Women, Families, and the Second Generation  151

5. Searching for Spiritual Sustenance  192

6. The Watershed of World War II  217

Part III. Destruction and Displacement: 1950s–2010  267

7. Losing El Dorado Street  269

8. Building a Filipina/o American Movement in Stockton  299

Epilogue. Coming Home to Little Manila  335

Notes  351

Bibliography  403

Index  423

“[An] engaging account of the Filipino American experience in the 20th century. . . . It expands and deepens our knowledge of that past beyond Bulosan’s riveting account of the Filipino American experience in the first half of the 20th Century. Of course, it helps that Dawn Mabalon is retelling the history of her own family and her own community.”—Benjamin Pimentel, Philippine Daily Inquirer

“[An] engaging account of the Filipino American experience in the 20th century. . . . It expands and deepens our knowledge of that past beyond Bulosan’s riveting account of the Filipino American experience in the first half of the 20th Century. Of course, it helps that Dawn Mabalon is retelling the history of her own family and her own community.”—Benjamin Pimentel, Philippine Daily Inquirer

"Little Manila Is in the Heart is a triumph of Filipina/o American history and American studies. There is no other scholarly analysis of the dynamic and vibrant Filipina/o American experience central to the development of Stockton's urban life and the larger San Joaquin Delta, a key area of California's agribusiness. Moreover, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon is a masterful storyteller. She draws on oral histories to illuminate the pain and joy of building, sustaining, losing, and attempting to preserve Little Manila in Stockton, weaving in with great finesse family history, archival research, and her own activism on behalf of Little Manila's preservation."—Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

"Offering new and exciting insights into the Filipina/o American experience, Little Manila Is in the Heart is a painstakingly researched history of the Filipina/o American community in Stockton. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon connects that local history to national and global phenomena; examines in depth the roles of gender, religion, and community organizing within Stockton's Filipina/o American community; and carefully documents the role of development on an urban Asian American community over the past several decades."—Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony, author of American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919–1941

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