Memory, Meaning, and Everyday Life in Little Manila
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Introduction
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Home, Inheritance, and Return
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Everyday Infrastructure and the Neighborhood as Lived Geography
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Visibility, Recognition, and the Problem of What Counts
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Fragility, Incompleteness, and Competing Futures
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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In this exhibit, I seek to understand the history of Little Manila, Woodside through sense, embodied memory, and affect – looking specifically at how it is remembered, inhabited, and interpreted by Filipino Americans of New York. Through oral histories with New Yorkers who find community and belonging in Woodside, I explore how diasporic Filipinos build homes in the neighborhood, how they move through it in everyday life, what institutions and routines make it “feel Filipino,” and how they grapple with the contradiction of Woodside’s recent public, official recognition as “Little Manila” with continued instability in the neighborhood.
01
Introduction
02
Home, Inheritance, and Return
03
Everyday Infrastructure and the Neighborhood as Lived Geography
04
Visibility, Recognition, and the Problem of What Counts
05
Fragility, Incompleteness, and Competing Futures
06
Conclusion
07
Bibliography
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