Concepcion : conquest, colonialism, and an immigrant family's fortunes / Albert Samaha.
| Author/creator | Samaha, Albert author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Riverhead Books, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | 384 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Conquest, colonialism, and an immigrant family's fortunes |
| Contents | The Score -- Departures -- Conversion -- Genesis -- Young Colonist -- Allies -- Collision Sport -- Moving. |
| Abstract | "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from their birthplace. As a rising tide of inequality and discrimination threatened to engulf her, her brother Spanky-a rising pop star back in Manila, now working as a luggage handler at San Francisco airport, his singing carrying no farther than a restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf-and others of their generation, he wondered whether their decision to abandon a middle-class existence in the Philippines had been worth the cost. Excavating his family's history back to the region's unique geopolitical roots in Spanish colonialism, Japanese occupation, and American intervention, Samaha fits his family's arc into the wider story of global migration as determined by chess moves among superpowers. And by relating their personal history with warmth and affection but also clear-eyed skepticism, 'Concepcion' explores what it might mean to reckon with imperialism's unjust legacy, to live with contradiction and hope, to fight for the unrealized ideals of an inherited homeland"-- Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Samaha, Albert. Concepcion New York : Riverhead Books, 2021 9780593086100 |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2021013641 |
| ISBN | 9780593086087 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0593086082 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | 9780593086094 (trade paperback) |
| ISBN | 0593086090 |
| Standard identifier# | 40030780431 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | F869 .S39 F436 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |