Filipino American

Filipino Americans (Fil-Am for short), the second-largest Asian American community http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf, are Americans who trace their ancestry back to the Philippines, an archipelagic nation found in Southeast Asia south of Taiwan and east of the South China Sea, and have attained United States residency and/or citizenship. There are over 2 million Americans who identified their ancestry as Filipino. Most Filipino Americans reside in California and Hawai'i. In addition to California, Filipinos form the largest group of Asians in Alaska, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. And in addition to Hawai'i, they are the second largest group of Asians in Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.

Further reading

Non-fiction

• Nichol Bryan, Filipino Americans, ABDO Publishing Co., 2003
• Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History, University of Washington Press, 1995
• Yen Le Espiritu, Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, University of California Press, 2003
• Barbara Mercedes Posadas, The Filipino Americans, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1999
• Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941, University of California Press, 2002
• Maria P.P. Root, Filipino Americans, SAGE Publications, 2004
• Maria P.P. Root, Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity, SAGE Publications, 1997

Fiction and poetry

• Jessica Hagedorn, Dream Jungle, Viking Adult, 2002