{"id":596,"date":"2024-10-29T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/celebrate-diversity\/?p=596"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:14:25","slug":"filipino-american-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/celebrate-diversity\/2024\/10\/29\/filipino-american-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino American History Month – October 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we near the end of October, we share appreciation and gratitude for Filipino American History Month, and this year’s theme “Struggle, Resistance, Solidarity, and Resilience<\/a>,” which pays tribute to the anniversaries of several resistance movements in Filipino American history.<\/p>\n

\"Dawn<\/a>Historian Dr. Dawn Mabalon<\/a>, born to Filipino parents who immigrated to the United States, urged the importance of recognizing the distinction of this month as a history<\/strong> month, rather than heritage.<\/p>\n

In 2013, five years before she passed, Dawn wrote, “History is inclusive of heritage and culture, but it\u2019s also about the ways we have built and changed this nation\u2014our stories, political struggles, transformations, labor, migration, activism, impact of imperialism and war, victories\u2014whereas \u2018heritage\u2019 is more limited to what we pass down in terms of culture, tradition, legacies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about Filipino American History month,\u00a0established by the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS)<\/a> in 1992, and the work of Dawn Mabalon and others in the resources below.<\/p>\n

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Emerson Resources<\/h1>\n

Emerson’s Intercultural Student Affairs<\/a> celebrates Filipino American History Month.<\/p>\n

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