Readings: Race, Class, and Colonial Dynamics

“Vigan” by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard 

Found in Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas (2003)

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“The Immigration Section” of “Tenement Lover: no palm trees/in new york city” by Jessica Hagedorn

Found in Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers (2000)

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“Homecoming” by Reine Arache Melvin

Found in Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas (2003)

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“Vanity” by Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido (1934)

Found in Songs of Ourselves: Writings by Filipino Women in English (1996)