San Francisco's International Hotel
Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement
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San Francisco's International Hotel
Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement
About This Book
The struggle to save the International Hotel and prevent the eviction of its elderly residents became a focal point in the creation of the contemporary Asian American movement, especially among Filipinos. Like other minorities who were looking for positive models in their past to build an identity movement, Filipino youth found their "roots" in the stories and lives of the "manongs" (respected elders), and the anti-eviction movement became a key site for the formation of a distinct Filipino American consciousness. Estella Habal, a student activist during the anti-eviction protests, relates this history within the context of the broader left politics of the era, the urban housing movement, and San Francisco city politics. Ultimately, the hotel was razed, but a new one now occupies the site and commemorates the residents and activists who fought for low-income housing for the elderly and their right to remain in their own community.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- Chronology of Legal and Political Events
- Introduction: "Coming Home to a Fresh Crop of Rice"
- Chapter One: Manilatown, Manongs, and the Student Radicals
- Chapter Two: A Home or a Parking Lot? Human Rights versus Property Rights, 1968-69
- Chapter Three: "Peace with a Lease": Renovation and Revolution, 1969-74
- Chapter Four: The Tiger Leaps: Fighting the Four Seas Investment Corporation, 1974-77
- Chapter Five: “Makibaka! Dare to Struggle!” The IHTA and theKDP, 1977
- Chapter Six: People’s Power versus Propertied Elites, 1977
- Chapter Seven: The Fall of the I-Hotel: Eviction and Demolition,1977–79
- Conclusion: The Rise of the I-Hotel, 1979–2005
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index