Aklatan: A Living Library of Resources for Filipinos Engaging in Liberation Work

Aklatan: A Living Library of Resources for Filipinos Engaging in Liberation Work

Compiled by Ma. Pia Catherine Cuadra

Western Imperialism and Colonialism

Title

Publication Type

Author/s

Arrivals, Conflict & Transformation in Maritime Southeast Asia, 1400s-1800s (2022)

Book

Fernando A. Santiago Jr., Jose Victor Z. Torres, and Ian Christopher B. Alfonso 

Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State 

Book

Alfred McCoy

Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913

Book

Victor Román Mendoza

Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (American Encounters/Global Interactions) 

Book 

Catherine Ceneza Choy

Imperial Leather: 

Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

Book

Anne McClintock 

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Book 

Eduardo Galeano

White Sexual Imperialism:  A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence 

Journal Article

Sunny Woan

The Filipino ‘exhibit’ at the  1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, Missouri


Look into:

https://www.jannalangholz.com/philippine-village-historical-site 


https://www.instagram.com/jannanonymous/ 

Paper

Michelle Sit

Voices from the Other Side: Impressions from Some Igorot Participants in U.S. Cultural Exhibitions in the Early 1900s

Article

June Prill-Brett 

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Book 

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

Eastern Imperialism 

Title

Publication Type

Author/s

China-Philippines Relations: Politics, History, Culture, and Foreign Policy

Articles / Zipfile 

Various authors

Asymmetry Theory and China–Philippines Relations with the South China Sea as a Case

Journal article

Amane Yamazaki and Suguru Osawa

Maritime Concerns and the Blue Economy

Journal articles

University of the Philippines: Centre for Integrative and Development Studies, various

The Choice the Philippines Didn’t Want to Make

News article

Timothy McLaughlin

How an Impasse in the South china Sea Drove the Philippines, US closer 

News article 

Zaheena Rasheed

The Rape of Nanjing: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Book

Iris Chang

Philippine History

Title

Publication Type

Author/s

Ayala Museum

Website – they host paid/free virtual workshops and seminars

Various

Dogs in Philippine History

Also look into:

https://www.facebook.com/DogsPHI/ 

Book

Ian Christopher B. Alfonso

Locating Pagkatao: Self-Reflexivity in Philippine LGBTQI History-Writing

Article 

Kiel Suarez

Sikodiwa


Instagram & Gumroad

Various

Carl Lorenz Cervantes

Deep Ecology, Nature Spirits, and the Filipino Transpersonal Worldview

Journal article

Carl Lorenz Cervantes

Martial Law Resources

Title

Publication Type

Author/s

The Marcos Years

Google Drive – contains archives, films and videos, newspaper clippings, articles

People for Accountable Governance and Sustainable Action-PAGASAph

The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

Book

Primitivo Mijares

Bantayog ng mga Bayani

Museum

Martial Law Museum

Museum, other learning materials 

Ateneo De Manila University

Martial Law Digital Library

Ateneo De Manila University

MartialLaw.PH: Digital Museum of Martial Law in the Philippines

Digital Museum, contains photos from the Filipino diaspora

Dakila - Philippine Collective for Modern Heroism in ℅ with with Heroes Hub 2018, Bantayog ng Mga Bayani, FORUM-ASIA, Assumption San Lorenzo Education Division - Social Studies Department, Assumption San Lorenzo Grade 6 Students Batch 2020-2021, Professor Charleston Xiao Chua, Hector Baretto Calma, Micheline Rama, Michael Bonifacio, and Maku Cacho

Cinemata: Daluyong: Political Filmmaking in a Period of Social Unrest Redux



Documentary

Engage Media and Rosemarie Roque

People Power as a Form of Citizen Participation

Journal article

Philippine Journal of Public Administration


For more book recommendations, check Ateneo features.

Islamic History and Bangsamoro 

Title

Publication Type

Author/s

Republic of Bangsamoro 

Government website

The Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy


Some publications: 

https://www.pcid.com.ph/publication/pieces-for-peace/ 


https://www.pcid.com.ph/discover-pcid/publications/

Website / Publications

Institute of Islamic Studies University of the Philippines 

Also look into:

https://iis.upd.edu.ph/books-published/

Research and publications

Various

More Islamic than We Admit: Philippine Islamic Cultural History

Book

Isaac Donoso

The Moro Reader: History and Contemporary Struggles of the Bangsamoro People

Book

Bobby M. Tuazon

Bangsamoro, a nation under endless tyranny

Book

Salah Jubair

A HISTORY OF STRUGGLE FOR PEACE OF THE BANGSAMORO: Shaping the Future Bangsamoro Museum  of Peoples’ History

Toolkit

Sites of Conscience

The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro

Agreement

UN Peacemaker

Moro fighters to Bongbong: ’70s massacres remain fresh

Newspaper article

Fifty fifth Session

Working Group on Minorities

Ninth Session

May 12 - 16 2003    

Document

Mucha-Shim Q. Arquiza,

Asian Muslim Action Network in the Philippines (AMANPHIL)-Consortium of Bagsamoro Civil Society 



Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines 

*Overlaps with Philippine history

Title

Publication Type

Katribu Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas

Instagram

Indigenous organization

Sabokahan Unity of Luman Women 


Instagram & Facebook

Indigenous organization focusing on the rights and struggles of Lumad 

BÀBÀ BISAYA

Instagram

Bisaya - language focused

Liyang Network 

Instagram & Facebook

Indigenous advocacy network

Pilipinas Journal 

Instagram

Organization

Filipino Diaspora in Canada

Title

Publication Type

Author/s

Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility

Book



Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, John Paul C. Catungal, and Lisa M. Davidson 

Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries

Book

Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo, Fritz Pino

York Centre for Asian Research



York University Philippine Studies


Instagram & Facebook

Website – YorkU has Philippine Studies 

Various

Exploring the Possibilities of Settler Filipino Food Sovereignty in Toronto: Theory, Filipino Farmers, and Accountability to Indigenous Sovereignty



Filipino Canadians call for support of Indigenous Peoples over shared colonized history

News article

Michelle Eliot

Indigenous in Turtle Island (North America)/Kanata (Canada)

Title

Publication Type

Author

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

Reports

NCTRC

Our First Peoples in Canada

eBook

Various

Indian Residential School Survivor System

Agency/organization

Orange Shirt Society

Resources

Agency/organization

Settler: Identity and Colonialism

Book

Adam J. Barker, Emma Battell Lowman 

Pamela Palmater

Also Look into:

https://pampalmater.com/publications/

https://goodminds.com/collections/pamela-palmater-collection 

Pam Palmater’s Podcast

Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor, activist/ various

Yintah

Toolkit: https://unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit2020/

https://www.yintahaccess.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/yintah_access/?hl=en

Film:

https://www.yintahfilm.com/

Unist’ot’en 



Idle No More

Indigenous social movement 

First Nations Child and Family Caring Society 

Also look into:

https://fncaringsociety.com/knowledge-portal 

Indigenous agency/organization

Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction 

Instagram

National Film Board of Canada: Indigenous CInema 

Film/documentaries

Various 

Some BIPOC Bookstores in Kanata/Canada/Toronto/Tkaronto 

Name

Source Link

A Different Booklist / Black-owned business

https://adifferentbooklist.com/

Second Story Press / Black and Indigenous-owned business 

https://secondstorypress.ca/pages/black-indigenous-bookstores

Another Day / Black-owned business 

https://anotherstory.ca/i/1157949/landing-page/index.html 

GoodMinds / Indigenous-owned business

https://goodminds.com/ 

 


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