Corazon Aquino is dead, and — especially since I’m writing this in the Philippines — I’m in the midst of a fit of national mourning. It’s all over the place: the funeral procession on TV, people wearing yellow T-shirts, banners on buildings, tweets and Facebook status updates, constant newspaper coverage, the lines of mourners,...
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Cutting and pasting from the Facebook invitation — many thanks to Maria Jovita Zarate for setting this all up! ———- PINOY ETHNOGRAPHY, AMERICAN SUBURB A lecture by Dr. Benito Vergara Host: Dean’s Office, UP College of Arts and Letters Tuesday, August 4, 2009 2:00pm – 5:00pm Bulwagan ng Dangal, UP Main Library University Avenue, UP Diliman Quezon City, Philippines The College of Arts and...
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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...
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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. ———- 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...
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So this has been one of those great weeks for me: the book finally in my hands, four sweet long days with my little daughter Izzy in Austin, Inauguration Day, and tonight, in an hour or so, the premiere of the fifth season of Lost. Lost (and also The Wire) has been one of the...
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Pinoy Capital The Filipino Nation in Daly City Benito M. Vergara, Jr. Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed “the Pinoy Capital of the United States.” In this fascinating ethnographic study of the lives of Daly City residents, Benito Vergara shows how Daly City has become...
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