Filipinos in the San Fernando Valley [Paperback]

From stories and photographs of longtime residents and community leaders in the San Fernando Valley, Joseph Bernardo pieces together a largely fragmented, hidden, yet rich history of Filipino Americans in Los Angeless San Fernando Valley.

Filipinos comprise the largest Asian American community in the place that some have deemed Americas Suburb. Although a small number of Filipinos formed farm laborer communities in Los Angeless San Fernando Valley beginning in the 1920s when the area was largely an agribusiness hub, most Filipinos settled in the valley when the postWorld War II bedroom community largely integrated beginning in the 1970s and 1980s. From the postindustrial age to the present, thousands of Filipinos flocked to the San Fernando Valley seeking affordable homeownership and a suburban quality of life, helping to change the makeup of communities, neighborhoods, schools, and even suburbia itself.Filipinos in the San Fernando Valleytraces the historical and cultural shifts of this quintessential suburb through the lens of generations of Filipinos who made the valley their home.

Dr. Bernardo is a native and current resident of the valley thanks to his immigrant parents, who settled in Northridge in the 1970s. He also cohosts the podcastThis Filipino American Lifewith other Valleyites.

From stories and photographs of longtime residents and community leaders in the San Fernando Valley,Joseph Bernardopieces together a largely fragmented, hidden, yet rich history of Filipino Americans in Los Angeless San Fernando Valley. Dr. Bernardo is a native and current resident of the valley thanks to his immigrant parents, who settled in Northridge in the 1970s. He also cohosts the podcastThis Filipino American Life