To browse Academia. Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States. It takes us for a ride on a Filipino Mardi Gras float and explores how social, cultural, and political forces lead us to diminish the significance of these places and events.
Filipino presence in the United States has a long history from the time of the Spanish Empire. As Filipinos immigrated for education and work to the U. These Manilatowns were almost always settled in conjunction with other ethnic enclaves, most of these being Chinatowns. I explore oral histories and newspapers in order to discuss the physical areas of Manilatown.
Additionally, I analyze the literature regarding Filipino immigration, unionization, and socialization to address the histories of the Filipino community. Because of external pressures and internal changes within the neighborhood Louisiana French can mean the group of the French Creole elite Europeans born abroad that settled in the city of New Orleans as part of the French colonial administration, or it can refer to the refugee population fleeing civil unrest in Haiti.
The third group of French Louisiana residents is that of the Acadians, who came seeking a life without persecution in the rural areas of the southern parts of the state. The Mindanao Settler: few collective identities are as complicated and yet as poorly introspected upon and discussed.
Marginalized in the National narrative while paradoxically also guilty of sociocultural oppression in the land of our birth, the Settler's condition is at once archetypal of the problematique of the Filipino identity and uniquely positioned in the turbulent discourse of Mindanao. This essay seeks to look into the complications of Mindanao discourse, and see where a positive Settler identity can be asserted.
