Dad. Husband. Professor. Contributor @PsychToday Books: #BrownSkinWhiteMinds, #InternalizedOppression, #PsychologyOfOppression, #WeHaveNotStoppedTremblingYet
Oct 14, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
"My children aren't half Athabascan or half Filipino. They're 100% Filipino & 100% Athabascan...when we really think about it, it doesn't make sense that me plus my wife equals half. One plus one does not equal half. Racism is so insidious that it got us distorting basic math."
I discuss this & many other issues like internalized oppression, intergenerational trauma, intergenerational healing, etc. in my book “We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet” published by @SUNYPress.
Just got some info that I might be the first ever Filipino American full professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage - est. in 1954, largest university in a state where Filipinos are the largest ethnic group (after Natives), & where Filipino presence go back to the 1700s! 😳
As my Kapwatid & many "firsts" himself @kevinnadal often say, I don't say this to brag, but to point out how underrepresented (and forgotten) Filipino Americans have been and STILL are in higher level positions - in academia, government, health, business, entertainment, etc.
