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Little Manila is an area in Stockton, California that was inhabited by predominantly Filipino American agricultural workers from the 1930s on. History [ edit ] Attracted to agricultural jobs in California's Central Valley , many young Filipino men made their homes in Stockton.
A Little Manila ( Filipino: Munting Maynila or Maliit na Maynila ), also known as a Manilatown ( Filipino: Bayang Maynila) or Filipinotown ( Filipino: Bayang Pilipino ), is a community with a large Filipino immigrant and descendant population. Little Manilas are enclaves of Overseas Filipinos consisting of people of Filipino origin living ...
Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California [1] (Duke University Press, 2013) by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon [2] is a book with three parts that depict the formation of Filipina/o American identities and community in the Little Manila in Stockton, California during the twentieth century.
The book "Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong" is a book co-written by Stockton native Gayle Romasanta and Little Manila Rising's co-founder Dr. Dawn Mabalon. It was published in 2018.
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (August 17, 1972 – August 10, 2018) was an American academic who worked on documenting the history of Filipino Americans. Mabalon was born in Stockton, and earned her doctoral degree from Stanford University; she later taught at San Francisco State University. [ 1] Mabalon was the co-founder of The Little Manila ...
State Route 4. State Route 4 ( SR 4) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, routed from Interstate 80 in the San Francisco Bay Area to State Route 89 in the Sierra Nevada. It roughly parallels the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a popular area for boating and fishing, with a number of accesses to marinas and other attractions.
2. Academic background. Alma mater. University of California, Los Angeles. Flora Arca Mata (December 19, 1917 – September 11, 2013) was an American teacher in Stockton, California. She became the first Filipino American teacher in California. [1] In 2019, a new elementary school was named after her in the Stockton Unified School District.
The city of Stockton was chosen as the future site for the Filipino American National Historical Museum by the FANHS Board of Trustees at the 1994 Conference held in San Francisco. In 2015, the museum opened in Stockton's Little Manila .