| Location |
MAIN |
| Item Call Number |
CT 1798 .A4 A4 2015 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17495 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9789712731549
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - CT 1798 .A4 A4 2015
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Arboleda, Amadio
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Amadio's box :
- Remainder of title - how I became Filipino /
- Statement of responsibility, etc - Amadio Arboleda
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc - Mandaluyong City :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc - Anvil Pub.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc - c2015
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 334 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc - "What makes someone a Filipino? This is the question this book attempts to answer. The American-born author is half Filipino by way of his father and half American by way of his mother. However, by a stroke of fate in 1948 he was taken to the Philippines to be educated as a Filipino from high school through college. While in high school he announced, "On this day, August 18, 1950, I proclaim that from now and forevermore I am Filipino!" In sixty or more years to follow the author proudly lived life in keeping with Filipino precepts even though he had only a vague idea of what these were and he no longer lived in the Philippines. In Amadio's Box the author explores these precepts and describes what he thinks are the qualities that distinguish him as a Filipino. The descriptions are presented in essays, short stories and articles, some factual, some imagined, based on his experiences. The author hopes that his account of his life from this perspective will somehow contribute to how Filipinos and would-be Filipinos, wherever they are in the world, continually try to define their identity as Filipino."
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Arboleda, Amadio
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Filipino Americans
- General subdivision - Ethnic identity
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