Please mark your calendars! I’m having a book reading / talk / Q&A at Eastwind Books in Berkeley — come over, bring friends, have your book signed! I’ll be talking about my new book, Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City, out earlier this year from Temple University Press.

Here are the details:

Saturday, April 4, 3:30 pm
Eastwind Books
2066 University Ave. @ Shattuck
Berkeley, CA

Please see http://www.asiabookcenter.com/ for more info about the reading; more information about the book itself can be found here: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1920_reg.html

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For those of you in the Bay Area — I have a book talk (more like a short reading plus introduction and Q&A) at SF State this coming Thursday.

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The Asian American Studies Department Presents:

“Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City”

By

Dr. Benito M. Vergara Jr.

Date:  Thursday, March 12, 2009
Start Time: 5:00pm
Location: Thornton Hall 327
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132

Description: Dr. Benito M. Vergara Jr. shares with us his ethnographic study of the Filipino American population in Daly City, CA. He probes into this community’s nostalgia for the ancestral country while delving into how colonialism, identity, transnational culture, and family impact this population. Dr. Vergara addresses how the Filipino American community shapes Daly City and is in turn also transformed in the process. Following, there is a Q&A with light refreshments.

This event is sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University and cosponsored by Asian Student Union (ASU), Manalo Movement, and Pilipino American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE). For more information you can contact Jeannie Woo at Jeannw8@sfsu.edu.

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