New book explores USA ‘Bridge Generation’

Filipino-American history has largely been focussed on the Manong Generation that immigrated to the US in the early 1900s. Their second-generation children -- the Bridge Generation -- are now in their sixties, seventies, and eighties. However, there is little literature regarding their life in America.
A new work by Peter Jamero, Vanishing Filipino Americans, explores the Bridge Generation’s growing up years, their maturation as participants in Filipino youth clubs and the development of their unique subculture.
Peter Jamero belongs to the Bridge Generation. He is a retired health services executive who served as assistant secretary of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, director of the Washington State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, director of the King County (WA) Department of Human Resources, vice president of the United Way of King County, executive director of the San Francisco City and County Human Rights Commission, branch chief in the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and executive director of the Asian American Recovery Services.
After retiring, he wrote Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American and also The Filipino Young Turks of Seattle.
If you would like to get a copy of his two latest books, please call or email Linda Nietes at [email protected] or call her at tel 310-514-9139.