Category Archives: Diversity & Multiculturalism
Writing About the Philippines
This post serves partly as an index to the writing I’ve done on this site about my homeland, The Philippines. My relation to this homeland has been problematic my whole life, and, in fact, the list of writings below is … Continue reading
Memories from the Mountains
This piece was written many years ago for the Chicago Reader (which eventually didn’t publish it) as a review of the Field Museum exhibit “The People and Art of the Philippines” mounted in the early 1980’s. It is slightly modified … Continue reading
Coffee, Ambien, Race
Caffeine speeds us up, Ambien slows us down. Fast or slow, in America race is always there, much as we still spend huge amounts of energy denying it, trying not to face it. Is Starbucks’ closing of 8000 stores “facing … Continue reading →