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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

8 months

"bad asians" draft reading list

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9 months

spring semester is going to be lit

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spring semester is going to be lit

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2 years

Page proofs are in, this baby's getting published in the spring!

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4 months

how it started: how it ended:

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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1 year

Last week, I got hooded and finished my PhD journey off strong! My dissertation on race-making and empire in Filipino Louisiana received outstanding dissertation awards from @NYUHistory , @NYUGSAS , and the University-Wide Dissertation Award in Humanities 🥳🥳🥳

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8 months

my students made a list of "bad asians" for the first day of class. Tag yourself!

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2 years

My article on race-making and empire in Filipino Louisiana is now available online @JourSouHist !!

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1 year

This weekend at #OAH23 I received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from @IEHS1965 for my research on race and empire in Filipino Louisiana! 🥹😊🤓

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@MSalgarolo

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Thanks to all the incredible historians who came out for my filipino new orleans walking tour as part of #oah24

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1 year

The history of the Filipino settlement at St. Malo, Louisiana, is now officially part of the social studies curriculum in NYC public schools!!!

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@MSalgarolo

5 months

I have "at least a dozen" colleagues I'd like to nominate

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5 months

NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying

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7 months

"bad asians" weeks 2-4 summarized in a single slide:

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6 months

for those attending #oah24 I'm debuting a walking tour through historic filipino new orleans. come through!

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3 months

thanks to everyone who came out to learn about the history of filipino brooklyn today!

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6 months

My new walking tour, "The Original," explores the strange, hilarious, and radical life of pioneering Chinese American author H.T. Tsiang in 1930s Greenwich Village. Thanks to the @APAInstitute grad working group for the chance to preview this last week!

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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1 year

For @aaww , I wrote about George Gardaya, a virtually unknown Filipino American writer in 1930s NYC. I discuss his private frustrations, his deranged anticolonial revenge novel, and my conversations with his son. Enjoy!

The Difficulties of George Gardaya

Gardaya’s letters offer glimpses into his fruitless search for love and acceptance in America

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

6 months

who thinks they can pass the bad asians midterm?

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@MSalgarolo

1 year

Recommended by Brooklyn's leading public historian! What an honor!

Dominique Jean-Louis

@DominiqueJL15

1 year

I recommend these tours about Filipinx history in Brooklyn so highly! I went in the spring and @MSalgarolo is so informed and smart and such a fun, engaging guide. I have literally never thought about the Brooklyn waterfront the same way again- get your ticket ASAP!!

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No consent for genocide. #LeaveItBlankNY

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11 months

Read about Pinoy nightlife in 1920s NYC and then come to my Filipino Brooklyn walking tour - coming up on 10/14 and 10/22!

Blood and Water Walking Tour

@BloodandWaterBK

11 months

A Brief History of...Gallivanting! *1920s Pinoy NYC Edition*

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8 months

the list brought us to one of the central premises of the class - that in some way or another, nearly all Asian Americans are "bad Asians," thus making it a category worth interrogating.

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3 months

come nerd out and learn about brooklyn's early filipino communities with me this Sunday 🥸

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@MSalgarolo

2 years

The Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies is finally here. I published entries on "Filipina/x/os in Louisiana" and "Settlement at St. Malo, Louisiana." Proud to see my name alongside such an esteemed list of contributors.

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8 months

I asked students to consider a more radical version of Asian Am history, one foregrounding empire, white supremacy and Asian diasporic anticolonial and anticapitalist traditions (inspired by Moon-Ho Jung's Menace to Empire)

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4 months

started with a syllabus. ended with a rebellion. great spring semester!

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6 months

thanks to the apa grad student working group for letting me workshop a new (slightly unhinged) walking tour

Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU

@APAInstitute

6 months

TOMORROW: NYU grad students are invited to join @SCAatNYU Faculty Fellow @MSalgarolo for "The Original," a walking tour through Greenwich Village exploring the life and legacy of radical Chinese American author H.T. Tsiang. Register:

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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8 months

It's going to be a fun semester. This class is FULL and the students bring a ton of energy to the room. So glad to see so much interest on here. I'm going to try to post updates every week for those who want to follow along. if you want pdfs of the readings, shoot me a dm.

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8 months

@2024Shawn looks like you can download here on researchgate - lmk if this doesn't work!

(PDF) "Good" and "Bad" Muslim Citizens: Feminists, Terrorists, and US Orientalisms

PDF | Sunaina Maira shares her views on the increasing debate on feminists, terrorists, and US orientalisms. She presents her views on the way... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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@MSalgarolo

3 months

went by the communist cafeteria from THE HANGING ON UNION SQUARE, got heckled on the street, five stars cc: @PenguinClassics

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THE ORIGINAL, my walking tour following the life of renegade Chinese American author H.T. Tsiang, makes its public debut June 15! link in bio

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I made the case that understanding the history of "bad Asians" would challenge the liberal narrative of (Asian) American history that we're used to hearing (aka the "Barack Obama" version of US history)

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great vibes at the h.t. tsiang walking tour this weekend thanks to @PenguinClassics for sending everyone home with a copy of The Hanging on Union Square!

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@MSalgarolo

1 year

I'm more than excited to reintroduce the world to BLOOD + WATER, my historical walking tour about early Filipino communities on the Brooklyn waterfront. May 20 + 27 in Brooklyn Bridge Park!

Blood and Water Walking Tour

@BloodandWaterBK

1 year

BLOOD + WATER is coming back this May (AAPI Heritage Month) - join us on the Brooklyn waterfront May 20+27! BLOOD + WATER is an immersive walking tour that tells the stories of early Filipino American communities on the Brooklyn waterfront.

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@clizzin @SCAatNYU @APAInstitute From the radical Asian American magazine Gidra, 1971. A satirical response to a book that claimed to teach men how to pick up Japanese girls

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1 year

Here's one of those little stories you come across in the archives and can't get out of your head - Nicholas de la Cruz, likely NYC's first Filipino resident, who ran a boarding house in the Five Points, married a German woman and had run-ins with local gangs.

Blood and Water Walking Tour

@BloodandWaterBK

1 year

NYC's first Filipino resident was likely a man named Nicholas de la Cruz, who ran a boarding house in the Five Points from the 1870s to the 1890s. 🧵

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@MSalgarolo

6 months

join me in welcoming the arrival of spring with an anti-imperialist historical walking tour

Blood and Water Walking Tour

@BloodandWaterBK

6 months

back at it for the spring - join us on the Brooklyn waterfront on Sunday, April 7 presented in collaboration with our friends from the Future Ancestors podcast

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1 year

full citation from the committee. honored!

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

I’m creating a walking tour centered around Filipino American history in Brooklyn debuting in October. More details to come!

Blood and Water Walking Tour

@BloodandWaterBK

2 years

Blood and Water is an immersive walking tour telling the stories of early Filipino American communities on the Brooklyn waterfront. Coming October 2022.

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I love this piece, also by HTP. Students pointed out the ancestral shrine and the tiger skin that provide background for the Vietnamese and American figures and the visual pairing between the Viet woman and the Am man (white clothes, binoculars vs. Mickey mouse hat)

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

Full of energy after two awesome tours yesterday. So happy to share histories of migration, empire and activism in Filipino Brooklyn. Closing this run off with two tours next Saturday, 10/15. Ticket link below.

Blood and Water Walking Tour

@BloodandWaterBK

2 years

Thanks to everyone who came out for two SOLD OUT tours on the Brooklyn waterfront yesterday. What a pleasure to share stories and connect with all of you. Great vibes! Let's do it again next weekend! 11 am and 2 pm tours on 10/15. Still a few tickets left. Link in bio!

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2 years

This news is infuriating. The very same employer (Louisiana's Grand Isle Shipyard) was sued a decade ago for holding Filipino workers in "involuntary servitude." According to these complaints, conditions have gotten worse during COVID.

TFALpodcast

@TFALpodcast

2 years

10 Filipino workers who are suing their former employer, major offshore oil industry company Grand Isle Shipyard, alleging they were virtual prisoners at their bunkhouse and that the company abandoned them there during the storm."

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1 year

So proud to contribute to the HIDDEN VOICES: AAPI History curriculum guide, which is available now for free download - a tremendous resource for teachers nationwide! HIDDEN VOICES: ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN US HISTORY is now available for free download.

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@miyomarlena @SCAatNYU @APAInstitute yes, when it's finished!

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i know of one country without racists in the 1830s

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1 year

Can't wait for this to get into NYC classrooms. I wrote a profile on the Filipino settlement at St. Malo, Louisiana - one of my proudest moments as a scholar!

Joe Schmidt

@HSGlobalHistory

1 year

A quick preview of @NYCSchools ’s HIDDEN VOICES: ASIAN AMERICANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN US HISTORY! Heading to schools in late June. ~450 pages w/ pedagogical essays, 4 Portrait of an Era essays, 40 Profiles of AAPI figures from the past & today, many primary sources, and more!

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one of my favorite things about h.t. tsiang was that he made cameo appearances in his own novels as an bitter, annoying weirdo desperately trying to hawk his self-published books. legend.

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1 year

Wow! Can't wait until this AAPI Hidden Voices curriculum drops. NYC public school students are going to get their minds blown 🤯

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@HSGlobalHistory

1 year

Saint Malo, Louisiana (Filipino settlement, ~1760s - 1915)

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@MSalgarolo

5 months

shame on Columbia for siccing the NYPD on their own students throw these kids some $$$ on venmo: bcabolitioncollective

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@jbenmenachem

5 months

Minouche Shafik just announced her decision to request NYPD to clear out the pro-Palestine student encampment

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@planethimbo I'll dm you the readings too

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"bad asians" draft reading list

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"Contesting Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Palestinian Violence" - Monday, Dec. 11 at 5:30 PM

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@MSalgarolo

2 years

I recorded a short reflection on the radical vision and modern legacies the historic Filipino settlement at St. Malo to accompany Cheyenne Concepcion’s fantastic sculpture “Disappearing St. Malo” @SocratesPark

Cheyenne Concepcion | Socrates Sculpture Park

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2 years

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Journal of Southern History

@JourSouHist

2 years

Coming soon! #bluelines #forthcoming #LXXXIX TOC:

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@CharmaineSChua 😀

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation, "Transimperial Histories and Racial Formations in Filipino Louisiana, 1860-1949." I'm a doctor! I'm grateful for the support and guidance of my advisors and for the many friends and family members who celebrated with me.

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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1 year

Mine is a small contribution to a HUGE project. 400+ pages of essays, activities, and primary sources. s/o to @HSGlobalHistory @cath_goulding and the many, many others who got this off the ground!

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@MSalgarolo

2 years

I’m so proud to be introducing my first walking tour. In the early 1900s, Filipino seamen, students, and activists built community and battled racism + imperialism in Brooklyn. Come hear their stories + more on Oct. 9 and 15!

Blood and Water Walking Tour

@BloodandWaterBK

2 years

Tickets on sale NOW for Blood + Water, an immersive historical walking tour centered around Brooklyn’s early Filipino communities! October 9 + 15 at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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2 years

I'm back doing stand-up with some of the funniest Pinoys on the planet! Thursday night, 10/27 at @caveatnyc with the legend Rex Navarette 😮

KyleMarian 🇵🇭🌏

@kylemarian

2 years

It’s #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth and my Filipinx comedy group have been working towards a big lil’ dream: Show NYC’s Filipino community we’re out here repping the kultura & our complex history. Join us Oct 27 at @caveatnyc w/ THE @rexnavarrete 🇵🇭🔥

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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2 years

Join me at the NYC book launch this Saturday with dozens of local contributors and editors @kevinnadal @pinayism @ejrdavid RSVP here:

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@MSalgarolo

1 year

The Picaresque Life of an 18th-Century Black English Polymath (Published 2023)

Born into slavery, Charles Ignatius Sancho became a writer, composer, merchant and voter. In a winning first novel, Paterson Joseph conjures his voice and his world.

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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h.t. tsiang walking tour coming at ya this saturday! and I'll have some free copies of THE HANGING ON UNION SQUARE to give away thanks to @PenguinClassics

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Hidden Voices: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in United States History | WeTeachNYC

The Hidden Voices project was initiated to help students learn about and honor the innumerable people, often “hidden” from the traditional historical record, who have shaped and continue to shape our...

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@MSalgarolo

2 years

@HC_Richardson @HilaryGreen77 Thank you! It'll be in the Journal of Southern History, coming out in February. I'll be sure to send an update when it goes live!

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2 years

Mini-thread (with photos) on the Manila Karihan restaurant, an early haunt for Filipino sailors near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Still tickets available for the 11 am walking tour this Sunday! (Link below)

Blood and Water Walking Tour

@BloodandWaterBK

2 years

A BRIEF HISTORY OF… the Manila Karihan restaurant at 47 Sands St., one of the earliest Filipino community hubs in Brooklyn. It was both a target of police harassment and an important site for community building and activism.

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2 years

Link here via Project MUSE. If you don't have institutional access, let me know and I can get you a copy.

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2 years

There's more to say here about OFWs, neoliberalism, etc. but for now: solidarity to the Renato Decena, Rosel Hernandez, and the dozens of other plaintiffs in this suit. Grand Isle Shipyard has demonstrated a clear pattern of abuse and needs to be held accountable.

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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11 months

Signed.

NYU Faculty Statement on Justice in Palestine

Statement By Faculty for Justice in Palestine at NYU We the undersigned want to express our solidarity with our students, at an urgent moment of U.S.- backed state violence against a colonized,...

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we discussed how the men's creation of a semi-sovereign settlement unnerved whites in the post-Reconstruction South. So did the St. Malo's apparent lack of women and multiracial composition

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blood and water but make it lofi:

Filipino History in Brooklyn New York

Here's a sneak peak behind the Blood and Water Tour hosted by Michael Salgarolo. He takes us on a journey through Filipino history right here in Brooklyn, Ne...

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@MSalgarolo

8 months

@oatmilkwrldwide gotta be some on libgen? I'll try to send out some links for those curious.

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@MSalgarolo

1 year

Great vibes last night as @ignatius_sancho regaled us with wisdom on history, narrative, performance, and and shared how he adapted the remarkable life of Charles Ignatius Sancho into a novel. Can't wait to read the book!

Paterson Joseph

@ignatius_sancho

1 year

💙Thank you, Brother #KamauWare and Fam for hosting my Publication Day USA Bash. Beautiful people and a magical night. Perfect balance of humour, history, truth and challenge. Felt safe and loved. Thank you, New Friends and True.💙⁦ @BlackGotham ⁩ #TSDOCIS ⁦ @HenryHolt ⁩

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

If you'd like to learn more about my research, I did an in-depth interview with my friends over at @NTKODPodcast earlier this year. I really enjoyed our conversation.

3. Of Swamps and Sailors: Race-Making and Filipino Histories in New Orleans with Michael Salgarolo

Episode · Not That Kind of Doctor: A Podcast About the PhD · In our third episode, we chat with Michael Salgarolo, a doctoral candidate in the History Department at New York University. His dissert...

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

Many of these activists consciously evoked the memories of Louisiana's early Filipino communities. In 2013, they held a "Kalayaan/Freedom Ride" at the historic marker for Manila Village, a Filipino shrimping settlement.

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@MSalgarolo

2 years

Dear students, Please stop referring to the Chinese Exclusion Act as a "microaggression." - Instructor Salgarolo

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

Had a great conversation with YouTuber Tesz Millan about the Blood and Water Walking tour and my research on Filipino Louisiana - more coming soon!

Brooklyn NYC's First Filipinos | Everything I Learned from an NYU...

The first Filipinos to arrive in Brooklyn NYC came for very different reasons than those who landed on the West Coast USA. Thanks to NYU Historian Michael Me...

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we started things off with my research on St. Malo, where Filipino sailors built a refuge from colonialism in the bayous of Louisiana in the 19th century

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

Big news for my extremely talented spouse, @yeahyeahyasmin who is now a full-time staff writer @TheAtlantic !! Follow Yasmin for the latest on COVID, science, and the future of food. as a bonus, you might get to read acerbic one-word editorials from yours truly 🙃

Yasmin Tayag

@yeahyeahyasmin

2 years

hello! some✨personal news✨—i'm joining @TheAtlantic as a staff writer! while i continue to write about the pandemic, i'll also be covering the future of food and its intersections with science and culture, among other topics. see you there nov. 8!

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for week 3 (entitled "original gangsters") we examined the legacies of Chinatown's tongs - often sensationalized as violent mobsters, but also well-integrated into the web of family and regional organizations that built the US's early Chinatown communities

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truly a special day

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@arko_dasgupta awesome! Excited to read Moon-Ho Jung's chapter on the Ghadar party in Menace to Empire.

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2 years

@A_NeedhamNYU Did some AGGRESSIVE spell checking on that chapter. haha.

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

Special thanks to my dissertation committee, @MarthaHodes @A_NeedhamNYU @ProfStevenHahn , Michele Mitchell and Dorothy Fujita-Rony. It was a pleasure to hear your thoughtful feedback on my work.

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we did this by reading snippets of "Chains to Lose" by Amir Haider Khan, who narrated how his experience as a sailor led him to join the Indian independence movement, and eventually, the Communist Party

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

The suit attracted national attention after the tragic deaths of Ellroy Corporal, Jerome Malagapo, and Avelino Tajonera, GIS employees who had been subcontracted to work on an offshore rig owned by Black Elk Energy.

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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full story here:

America Is Running Out of ‘COVID Virgins’

If you haven’t gotten the coronavirus, are you a sitting duck?

www.theatlantic.com

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

Hey everyone, I'm coming out of twitter retirement with a slightly new handle. Lots of big news coming soon!

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

7 months

Japan, in many ways, tried to position itself as a defender of the world's "colored" peoples and inspired many across the colonized world - including many African Americans

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

6 months

Tonight! Happy to be reunited with this group of collaborators and friends.

Louisiana Historical Association

@lahistassoc

6 months

Mark your calendar: Our free virtual session is happening in just two days! Louisiana history lovers, don't miss this discussion: "Filipino and Chinese Fishermen of Coastal Louisiana" featuring historians like @MSalgarolo and @randygon . Just use Zoom ID 847-307-0446 to join us!

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

honestly why the fuck not

Yasmin Tayag

@yeahyeahyasmin

2 years

You: Cocaine Bear - why? Me: Cocaine Bear,

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7 months

as these two photos demonstrate, sometimes tongs were violent criminal enterprises - sometimes they were clubhouses to kick it with the boys

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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8 months

@DominiqueJL15 oh no! lol mortifying

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

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8 months

@mybrainisfunnyy this was a good one. Had to do with "bad" Asians in positions of power/dominance

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

@AnitaAugust2 @HilaryGreen77 Thank you! Yes, Take Out with Lisa Ling!

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@MSalgarolo

7 months

we discussed the rise of the US empire in the Pacific (Hawaii, Philippines) and how Japan's victory over Russia in 1905 spurred fears of a challenge to "white world supremacy"

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

7 months

also got to show my favorite St. Malo pop culture reference, its brief cameo in the CW's "The Vampire Diaries"

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

The historic site of St. Malo is in LA’s coastal wetlands, which are at risk of destruction due to rising seas and erosion. Cheyenne’s sculpture offers a space of community-building and connection the face of loss and erasure.

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@MSalgarolo

1 year

Blood and Water - Filipino Brooklyn Walking Tour

BLOOD AND WATER is an immersive walking tour that tells the stories of early Filipino American communities on the Brooklyn waterfront.

www.eventbrite.com

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Michael Salgarolo, Ph.D

@MSalgarolo

2 years

In a 2012 suit, Filipino workers accused GIS of abusive conditions - 18 hour workdays, 24 hour surveillance, squalid housing, no overtime pay.

In Depth: Pipeline of alleged human trafficking from Philippines to the Gulf

In a cramped Westbank apartment, five men drink cups of coffee, search for work, send e-mails to the families that drove them here, 9,000 miles on the opposite side of the globe.

www.wwltv.com

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"the original," my walking tour following H.T. Tsiang's life in Greenwich Village, debuts June 15 tickets:

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