Research Guides: English 468/568: Reading Experiments: Contextual Information

Contextual Information: Rolling the Rs

Sources for finding historical context and information about characters featured and themes in Rolling the Rs by R. Zamora Linmark.

Hawaii [Dictionary of American History]
Best, Gary Dean. "Hawaii." Dictionary of American History, edited by Stanley I. Kutler, 3rd ed., vol. 4, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003, pp. 105-108.
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Making of the Nation
Odo, Franklin. "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Making of the Nation." National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 5 June 2018.

American Culture in The 1970s
Call Number: eBook
This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; popular music and style; public space and spectacle - and the decade's most influential practitioners and texts.
Historical Dictionary of the Philippines
Call Number: eBook
Covers more than four centuries of Filipino history, with more than four hundred entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as a detailed chronology.

Filipinos in Hawaii and Institutional Racism
Haas, Michael (1984). "Filipinos in Hawaii and Institutional Racism." Philippine Sociological Review. 32 (1): 44.
From Running Amok to Eating Dogs: A Century of Misrepresenting Filipino Americans in Hawai‘i
Okamura, Jonathon Y. (March 2010). "From Running Amok to Eating Dogs: A Century of Misrepresenting Filipino Americans in Hawai'i". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 33 (3): 501.
“Tomboys” and “Baklas”: Experiences of Lesbian and Gay Filipino Americans
Nadal, K. L., & Corpus, M. J. H. (2013). “Tomboys” and “Baklas”: Experiences of Lesbian and Gay Filipino Americans. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 4(3), 166–175.