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Nov 3, 2021 · A s Albert Samaha’s memoir, Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, begins, he hears from his mother that she’s being scammed by a man she met online. He and his mother view American politics very differently: she’s a Trump supporter and he’s progressive.
Oct 12, 2021 · Samaha’s memoir, “Concepcion,” puts us forcefully and unapologetically on the hook of U.S. imperial history and its role in shaping Filipino and American identity. via Albert Samaha. Buy Book...
Oct 12, 2021 · Tracing his family's history through the region's unique geopolitical roots in Spanish colonialism, American intervention, and Japanese occupation, Samaha fits their arc into the wider story of global migration as determined by chess moves among superpowers.
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Book Summary. A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipino American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience.
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Feb 11, 2022 · Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes by Albert Samaha (Riverhead) “The empire tells the stories,” Albert Samaha says early on in his compelling memoir, Concepcion, which traces the immigration of his extended family from the Philippines to California before he was born.
Oct 10, 2021 · Samaha’s generation saw firsthand how the civic infrastructure that tacitly undergirded the older generation’s fantasies of American exceptionalism wasn’t as robust as it once was.
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Tracing his family’s history through the region’s unique geopolitical roots in Spanish colonialism, American intervention, and Japanese occupation, Samaha fits their arc into the wider story of global migration as determined by chess moves among superpowers.
