✂️ Filipino American Businesses 🍳

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Quick Overview!

Businesses in downtown Watsonville were crucial to the Filipino American community in the Pajaro Valley. They provided familiar products and jobs and operated as cultural hubs. They played a key role in shaping the community's vitality.

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🔍 Guiding Questions 🔍

• Are there places in your neighborhood where you like to spend time with your friends and family? Where are they? 
• Where did Filipino Americans gather in Watsonville? 
• Can places, like those shown in these sources, be sites of community-building and identity formation? 

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📚 Suggested Secondary Source Readings and Additional Resources 📚

Lynch, Una. “Reconsidering Rosita Tabasa: Watsonville’s Revered Matriarch. Links to an external site.” Digital Exhibit for Watsonville is in the Heart: A Community Archive and Research Initiative. 

Mabalon, Dawn Bohulano. "Making a Filipina/o American World in Stockton Links to an external site." in Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.

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