Bücher veröffentlicht von Eastwind Books of Berkeley

DescriptionFollowers of the Seasons is a collection of the life's work of renown Pilipino American writer Oscar Peñaranda. It is divided into five suites that cover topics of history, struggle, family, friendship and concerns for humanity. The work takes us from locations in various aspects of the writers life: the Philippines, student cultural and political activism at SF State campuses, work as an Alaskero in the canneries, to San Francisco's Manilatown.Praise for Followers of the SeasonsOscar Peñaranda claims everything is inspired by a true story. In Followers of the Seasons, he gathers seemingly disparate events and images from his life, ancestral memory, and universal experience, sprinkled among multiple genres, slowly order and assemble themselves in the reader's consciousness, ultimately yielding larger truths. A bridge, a toilet, a flag, a burning pot of lumpia - familiar objects, when handled by Peñaranda's deft storytelling, conjure feelings of loss, heartbreak, the search for our roots, our selves, and for home. -Tina Bobadilla- Mastel, Master Teacher, mentor, educator all her adult life to several generations of students and citizens, James Logan High School, Union City."There are extremely few people in the world who think and move with equal levels of sensibilty, grace, intellectual agility, and accuracy in two distinct and often conflicting cultures. Oscar Peñaranda is such a person - truly and deeply bicultural - all and at once Filipino and American. His writings present the truest of truths, envisioned through a lens molded from an amalgam of knowledge of literature in English, Filipino, Cebuano, and Waray and polished with the fine-grains of decades of personal adventures and experience as an educator and mentor. Read on - you'll see and enjoy!-Daniel P. Gonzales, Professor of Asian American Studies Emeritus, SF State.Table of ContentsForeward by Tony RoblesIntroduction by Aileen CassinettoAcknowledgementsKey: SF (Short or Sudden Fiction), SS (Short Story), E (Essay), M (Memoir), P (Poem)SUITE #1: The BridgeSUITE #2: The VoyageSUITE #3: The CitySUITE #4: The AlaskerosSUITE #5: The CureEpilogue About the AuthorOscar Peñaranda is an educator, writer, and culture-bearer for and from both shores of the Pacific and is a recipient of the prestigious Gawad Alagad ni Balagtas for lifetime achievement for his writings and endeavors; and the 2023 City of San Francisco Trailblazers Award. He has a Bachelors in Literature and a Masters in Creative Writing from SF State University. While he was working one late summer in Alaska, he was recruited to teach a class in the newly formed Ethnic Studies Department at San Francisco State. Oscar began his teaching career as an assistant of Joaquin Legaspi of the International Hotel and created several classes, one of which was a Survey of Philippine Art and Literature. While at SF State, he created three fourths of those classes which still exist to this day.

Personal memoir of Chicano educator and social justice activist Dr. Carlos Muñoz, Jr. He was born in the "segundo barrio" in El Paso, Texas, and raised in the barrios of East Los Angeles, California. He is the son of poor working class Mexican immigrants. He earned his AA from Los Angeles City Community College, his BA with honors in Political Science from California State University at Los Angeles and his PhD in Government from the Claremont Graduate University. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Adjunct Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. After 47 years of teaching in higher education, he has gained international prominence as political scientist, historian, journalist, and public intellectual.

This book: on the power of intergenerational truth-telling as civic democratic practice, was written for high school students. Many students of color come to college, frustrated, and asking, "How come we never learned our histories and stories in high school?" The histories of Black, Asian American, Latinx, and LGBTQ students are often elided from high school history teaching and in their textbooks, when, our stories are very much imbricated within the fabric of US history. The contributors to this anthology share some of their personal narratives and elided histories that we hope can be inspirational for students, educators, and families to discuss together. Our hope is for more stories to be told, written, and discussed. Our country needs truth-telling and civic engagement from people of all ages to make our democracy flourish. This anthology is intergenerational, highlighting the importance of mutual and reciprocal learning-we have much to learn from one another.

A memoir written by Juanita Tamayo Lott, a participant in the 1968 San Francisco State College Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) Strike to establish the College of Ethnic Studies. The book discusses the reasons for strike and the background social, political and cultural changes taking place at the time. The strike's impact today is embodied in the College of Ethnic Studies and the efforts of every student, staff, faculty or community member associated with the college to ensure that the program continues and remains relevant today.