Table of contents : Filipino American Transnational Activism: Diasporic Politics among the Second Generation Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Being Filipino without the Philippines: Second-Generation Filipino American Ethnic Identification 2 Bayan Ko (My Country): the kdp and a Diasporic Vision of Filipino American Activism, 1972-1981 3 The Philippines Information Bulletin and the Transnational Anti-Marcos Press 4 Artist as Citizen: Transnational Cultural Work in the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines 5 "Centerwomen" and the "Fourth Shift": Hidden Figures of Transnational Filipino Activism in Los Angeles, 1972-1992 6 Painting the Picture: Habi Arts and Collective Mural Making in the Los Angeles Area 7 The Intertextuality of Triumphant Diasporic Return: Reading the Novels of R. Zamora Linmark 8 Transpacific Freedom Dreams: the Radical Legacy of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes Conclusion Index