Filipinos in Barack’s America

THIS week, the PCIJ Channel features an interview with U.S.-based Filipino journalist Benjamin Pimentel, author of Pareng Barack: Filipinos in Obama’s America.

Published by Anvil, the book talks about Barack Obama’s march to the American presidency and how Filipinos responded to it. It also tells the story of the Filipino journey in the United States, how it interacted, sometimes even clashed, with those of other communities.

Listen to Pimentel as he talks more about his book, his views on the challenges president-elect Obama is yet to face, and how he himself would fit in Barack’s America.

Listen to the podcast:

• Length: 00:13:57
  Language: English
  File size: 12.8 MB

The author grew up in Quezon City and was educated at the Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines, Diliman, and the University of California at Berkeley. He moved to the U.S. in 1990 and was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle for 14 years. He now covers technology for MarketWatch.

Pimentel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Mara, and their sons, Paolo Lean and Anton Diego.