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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.
By 1946, Stockton's Little Manila was home to the largest Filipino community in the US. In the 1950s and 1960s, large sections of Little Manila were bulldozed by the city to "improve" Stockton's downtown area. A freeway and some fast food establishments displaced many Filipino homes and establishments and disrupted community life.
Little Manila Rising is a community-based organization focused on bringing equitable solutions to South Stockton. To me, the story of Little Manila Rising in the Central Valley is one of ...
Through the early 2000s, Delvo and Little Manila Rising co-founder Dawn Mabalon successfully got the city to designate the Filipino neighborhood within South Stockton, just a few miles southeast ...
Manilatown was a Filipino American neighborhood in San Francisco (i.e., a Little Manila), which thrived from the 1920s to late 1970s. [1] The district encompassed a three block radius around Kearny and Jackson Streets, next to Chinatown. [2]
An early Filipino community in downtown Los Angeles that eventually became known as Little Manila was established in the 1920s. The area was a thriving center of Filipino commercial and cultural ...
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 ...
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.