Why does Filipinx Studies need to be "critical"?
In this episode, Valerie Francisco-Menchavez talks with Dr. Mike Viola and Dr. Joy Sales about the need for Filipinx Studies to be critical.
Michael Joseph Viola is Associate Professor at Saint Marys College of California in the Justice, Community & Leadership (JCL) program and affiliate faculty in the Ethnic Studies program. He earned a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in urban schooling from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is currently working on a book project that examines Filipino/a American activism and solidarities from 1965 to present.
Joy Sales is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at Cal State LA. Her research interests include Filipino/a/x studies, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, U.S. in the world, U.S. empire, social movements, and gender studies. She is working on a book manuscript, "We Are Revolution: Empire, Diaspora, and Transpacific Filipino Activism." I focus on Filipino American activists and their involvement in homeland politics after the watershed 1965 Immigration Act and during an era of military dictatorship in the Philippines under Ferdinand E. Marcos (1965-1986).