Adrian De Leon, BUNDOK

Bel Canto Books is honored to host “Celebrating BUNDOK: A HINTERLAND HISTORY OF FILIPINO AMERICA” with writer and public historian Adrian De Leon.

Kindly RSVP so we can plan accordingly! Please stay home if you feel sick.

This event will be held indoors at KUBO LB (3976 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach CA).

E VENT SCHEDULE

5:45pm – Event check-in starts

6:00pm – Event welcome and author introductions

6:15pm – 7:00pm – Author reading/conversation and Q&A

7:00pm – 8:00pm – Book signing and private shopping time

8 :00pm – Event ends

ABOUT THE BOOK

Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time in BUNDOK: A HINTERLAND HISTORY OF FILIPINO AMERICA, advancing a new vision of the United States’s Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing. From the emergence of Luzon’s eighteenth-century tobacco industry and the Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Association’s documentation of workers to the movement of people and ideas across the Suez Canal and the stories of Filipino farmworkers in the American West, De Leon traces “the Filipino” as a racial category emerging from the labor, subjugation, archiving, and resistance of native people.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adrian De Leon is a writer and public historian at New York University. He is the author of several books: Rouge (2017), barangay: an offshore poem (2021), and Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America (2023). He is the co-host of A People’s History of Asian America and Historian’s Take, both with PBS Digital Studios. Prior to joining NYU, he has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Southern California, and Simon Fraser University.

ABOUT KUBO LB

KUBO LB is a creative community space for Filipinx, BIPOC, LGBTQ, and Women led small businesses. KUBO LB is a space to support and educate small businesses through retail, business workshops and more.

BUNDOK: A HINTERLAND HISTORY OF FILIPINO AMERICA by Adrian De Leon