Journalist Jonathan Capehart, interviewing Blackhawk for a recent Washington Post Live event, observed: “I’m old enough to remember the encyclopaedias or biology books where you’ve got the main page and then you have these plastic overlays – you lay one down and you see one set of organs you lay another one down, you see more, but you see them altogether. Taken with Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project, it is a reminder of the danger of a single story when history is better understood as a multiverse of perspectives. Native Americans played a foundational role in shaping America’s constitutional democracy, he contends, even as they were murdered and dispossessed of their land. In his new book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History, Blackhawk attempts to tell that continental history over five centuries, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Indian self-determination. It was their garden homelands, after all, that birthed America.”
“But can we imagine an American Eden that is not cultivated by its original caretakers? Exiled from the American origin story, Indigenous peoples await the telling of a continental history that includes them. “Binary, rather than multiracial, visions dominate studies of the past where slavery represents America’s original sin or the antithesis of the American idea. Fifth St., Los Angeles CA 90071 or call (213) 228-7272.“Scholars have recently come to view African American slavery as central to the making of America, but few have seen Native Americans in a similar light,” writes Ned Blackhawk, a historian at Yale University and member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone. Make a donation by check to the Los Angeles Public Library and send it to:.Foundation members receive a variety of benefits with their membership. The Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises funds for Library enhancement programs such as adult and early literacy, children and teen reading clubs, technology, and cultural programs. Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.For more information click here or talk to your local librarian. Friends groups raise money for improvements to their library through memberships, used book sales and other activities. There is a “Friends of the Library” group for most branch libraries and departments of the Central Library. You can support the Los Angeles Public Library in several ways: With more people than ever before using the library-a record 17 million last year alone-your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive.
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Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities. The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States. Part of Filipino literary history are the writings of Carolos Bulosan, whose contributions are kept alive by the Carolos Bulosan Book Club and its members, who are very active at the Echo Park Branch Library. These non-fiction books provide insights into some of the history and contributions of Filipino Americans.įilipino American History Month: Cookbooks & Foodįilipino cuisine has a rich and varied history that includes influences from many cultures and countries.įilipino American History Month: Fiction & LiteratureĪ selection of novels and poetry by classic and modern Filipino writers. Here are three such lists curated by our librarians.įilipino American History Month: Non-Fiction
In addition to the photo collections we have highlighted, we have lists of books featuring Filipino Americans, and Filipinos throughout the diaspora. Filipino American History Month was established to commemorate the first documented landing (over 425 years ago) of Filipinos in what is now the continental United States. October is Filipino American History Month, and the Filipino American National Historical Society has been observing October as Filipino American History Month since 1991, with California officially recognizing the month in 2006 when the California Department of Education placed it on its celebrations calendar. The Los Angeles Public Library strives to shine a light on all the people and cultures that make up Los Angeles and its environs.
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