{"id":35177,"date":"2013-12-26T18:42:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35177"},"modified":"2016-11-02T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:06:27","slug":"becoming-mexipino-multiethnic-identities-and-communities-in-san-diego-floyd-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35177","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegohistory.org\/journal\/v59-4\/v59-4bookreviews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegohistory.org\/journal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Journal of San Diego History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegohistory.org\/journal\/v59-4\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 59, Number 4<\/a> (Fall 2013)<br \/>\npages 291-292<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/cas\/english\/faculty\/biography.php?ID=107\" target=\"_blank\">Carlton Floyd<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegohistory.org\/journal\/v59-4\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegohistory.org\/sites\/default\/files\/v59-4front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18559\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>By Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012. Maps, photographs, tables, notes, and index. 256 pp. $25.95 paper.<\/p>\n<p><em>Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/sst.clas.asu.edu\/content\/rudy-guevarra-jr-0\" target=\"_blank\">Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.<\/a> deftly explores his Filipino and Mexican familial history from its origins in Spanish colonialism to its current Mexipino configurations in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Diego\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego<\/a>. Addressing a subject that has received little extended critical attention, Guevarra argues that Spain&#8217;s sixteenth-century colonial enterprises brought Mexicans and Filipinos together in ways that facilitated their intimate interaction. First, they shared or, more aptly, endured enslavement and indentured servitude as well as the interest in surviving these perilous conditions. Second, Mexicans and Filipinos took on a common language and religion: Spanish and Catholicism. Third, they discovered themselves in possession of a similar sense of familial arrangements\u2014in the notions of godparents and in the practice of coming-of-age ceremonies for young women, to cite two examples. These various conditions facilitated intimate interethnic relationships then, and foreshadowed similar intimate interactions centuries later, particularly in the western parts of the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegohistory.org\/journal\/v59-4\/v59-4bookreviews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 59, Number 4 (Fall 2013) pages 291-292 Carlton Floyd, Associate Professor of English University of San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,459,14646,8,20],"tags":[455,16636,14728,3622,855,3621,3620,7600],"class_list":["post-35177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-california","tag-carlton-floyd","tag-journal-of-san-diego-history","tag-rudy-guevarra-jr","tag-rudy-p-guevarra","tag-rudy-p-guevarra-jr","tag-san-diego","tag-the-journal-of-san-diego-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49728,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35177\/revisions\/49728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}