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Author Habal, Estella, 1949- author.

Title San Francisco's International Hotel : mobilizing the Filipino American community in the anti-eviction movement / Estella Habal
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Asian American history and culture
Asian American history and culture.
Contents Introduction : "Coming home to a fresh crop of rice" -- Manilatown, Manongs, and the student radicals -- A home or a parking lot? Human rights vs. property rights, 1968-69 -- "Peace with a lease" : renovation and revolution, 1969-74 -- The tiger leaps : fighting the Four Seas Investment Corporation, 1974-77 -- "Makibaka! Dare to struggle!" : the IHTA and the KDP, 1977 -- People's power versus propertied elites, 1977 -- The fall of the I-Hotel : eviction and demolition, 1977-79 -- Conclusion : the rise of the I-Hotel, 1979-2005
Summary How a protest galvanized a cultural identity for Filipino Americans
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Older people -- Housing -- California -- San Francisco
Eviction -- California -- San Francisco
Filipino Americans -- California -- San Francisco
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Abuse -- Elder Abuse.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Eldercare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Eviction
Filipino Americans
Older people -- Housing
California -- San Francisco
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781592134472
1592134475
1281243051
9781281243058
9786611243050
6611243054