Tag Archives: Michelle Cruz Skinner

“In the Company of Strangers” – JCCH Book of the Month

February 3, 2010 – 11:52 am

Michelle Cruz Skinner’s In the Company of Strangers (Bamboo Ridge, 2009) is the book of the month in February for the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii (JCCH) Book Club. 
Skinner’s book, a collection of short stories published by Bamboo Ridge Press in 2009, will be discussed by the author on “Thinking Out Loud,” a radio-call in program hosted by Willa Tanabe [...]

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Book Review – Balikbayan: A Filipino Homecoming

November 9, 2009 – 12:12 pm

It was the Marcos regime in the mid-1970s that coined the term balikbayan by joining the Tagalog words balik, to return, with bayan, meaning town and nation. A balikbayan’s relationship to the Philippines is construed in terms of his sentimental attachments to his hometown and extended family rather than his loyalty to the nation-state. At [...]

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