DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- “Once seen as half-human, inferior savages, Chinese and Filipinas/os were suddenly America’s allies, while the Stockton Japanese community immediately found itself the target of racist attacks from their Asian neighbors as well as whites,” wrote the late Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, a Stanford-trained Ph.D. who was a tenured professor of History at San Francisco State University, and at the time of her death, a promising young Filipino American scholar in American history.
Her book “Little Manila Is in the Heart” talked about how Pearl Harbor changed the racial pecking order quickly. “Once the favored racial minorities of white elites in the Delta, ethnic Japanese found themselves under racial attack and intense scrutiny in Stockton through the winter and spring of 1941 – 1942.”