{"id":45774,"date":"2016-02-25T00:11:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45774"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:21:50","slug":"the-forgotten-amerasians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45774","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Amerasians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/opencitymag.com\/the-forgotten-amerasians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Forgotten Amerasians<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opencitymag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open City<\/a><br \/>\nAsian American Writers&#8217; Workshop<br \/>\n2016-02-11<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enricodungca.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enrico Dungca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Unwanted in their mothers\u2019 country and unwelcome in their fathers\u2019 homeland, Filipino <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amerasian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amerasians<\/a> are still in search of a home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know your father?\u201d I asked him.<\/p>\n<p>It was a humid, rainy night in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angeles,_Philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angeles City<\/a>, some 50 miles north of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manila\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manila<\/a>. I was aboard a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeepney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jeepney<\/a> on my way home after partying with friends during a recent trip to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philippines<\/a>. He was also a passenger on that jeepney, the most popular mode of public transportation in the Philippines that were originally made from U.S. military jeeps left over from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World War II<\/a> \u2013 one of the more visible and enduring vestiges of American military presence in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother is a Filipino, and my father is an American,\u201d Eric said, as he lowered his gaze and kept it fixed on the jeepney floor. He started shaking his head and said he has no recollection of his father, although he often wondered about him \u2014 where he lives, if he is still alive, or if he remembers him or if he knew that he existed at all.<\/p>\n<p>His father is a U.S. serviceman, one of the hundreds of thousands of American military men who were stationed in the Philippines since 1898 when the U.S. became the new colonial master of the former Spanish colony. Eric is what <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nobel Prize for literature<\/a> awardee <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pearl_S._Buck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pearl Buck<\/a> called an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amerasian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amerasian<\/a>\u201d \u2014 born of Asian mothers and sired and abandoned by their American soldier-fathers who were momentarily posted in countries that were either stages or hosts to U.S. military adventures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/opencitymag.com\/the-forgotten-amerasians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unwanted in their mothers\u2019 country and unwelcome in their fathers\u2019 homeland, Filipino Amerasians are still in search of a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1245,8,4405],"tags":[23066,16449,23067,23065,1799],"class_list":["post-45774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-amerasians","tag-asian-american-writers-workshop","tag-enrico-dungca","tag-open-city","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774","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=45774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53826,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774\/revisions\/53826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}