008 - Dawn Mabalon Is In The Heart
Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon is a groundbreaking scholar, historian, and community organizer who made sure the world would know the stories of Filipino Americans and Stockton’s Little Manila. An interview I recorded with her sends me on a journey to understand just how big her impact was, and why people will always say: Dawn Mabalon is in the Heart.
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Her official obituary on San Francisco State University’s website details her work and impact in much more detail: The Passing of Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
Experience more of Dawn’s work and accomplishments:
Beats, Rhymes, and Resistance: Pilipinos and Hip Hop in Los Angeles
Dawn’s speech at the Little Manila Historic Site Dedication in Stockton
If You Want To Know What We Are Part II (Thank You Carlos Bulosan)
Read the original text of “Resistance and Struggle are Sisters” on Allyson’s website
The Little Manila Center in Stockton features some great photos and artifacts. Check it out if you can!
It also, of course, included some great tributes to Dawn.
Dawn and Gayle’s book, Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong, can be bought on the Bridge Delta website.
Her books also include Little Manila is in the Heart, Filipinos in Stockton, and Filipinos in San Francisco.
Her essay “As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating and Becoming Filipina/o American Before World War II” can be found in Eating Asian America.
Even more of her work can be found on SFSU’s site.
And if you want to learn more about Larry Itliong, along with the other Filipino American farmworkers and labor organizers, check out Marissa Aroy’s Delano Manongs and Long Distance’s Episode #12: Larry Itliong and the Great Delano Grape Strike.