Do any of these statements apply to you?

If so, then you've come to the right place.

  • I am proud to be Filipino but I haven't had a chance to learn about my Philippine heritage

  • I want to know more about Filipino history in the United States

  • I want to connect with other Filipinos who share my passion for my identity, history and collective experience

  • I want to be learn about how I can get more involved in serving the community

  • I want to ensure that I can pass on knowledge about my roots and foster Filipino pride in my children

Learn directly from a recognized expert in Filipino Studies!

After playing a leading role in growing Filipino Studies in higher education as a scholar, educator, writer and founder of the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, Dr. Rodriguez has decided to devote herself more fully to extending Filipino Studies to the broader community. A long-time community organizer, Dr. Rodriguez is passionate about ensuring that Filipino Studies doesn't stay in the university's "ivory tower."

Founder Dr. Robyn Rodriguez

Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is a highly accomplished researcher as well as a beloved educator and mentor who left her career as a university professor to establish SLE. Shortly after founding SLE, Dr. Rodriguez also founded Remagination Farm, a farm, learning center, healing & arts space. SLE and Remagination are not-for-profit social enterprises that are sibling organizations to the Amado Khaya Initiative, which honors the activist work of the late Amado Khaya Canham Rodriguez, Dr. Rodriguez's eldest son, who passed away at the age of 22 while serving indigenous communities in the Philippines. More about Dr. Rodriguez can be found on her website, drrobynrodriguez.com.

Course Curriculum

Free Preview Lessons Available

What follows is a preliminary outline of the topics we will be covering based on Dr. Rodriguez's expertise, important developments in the field of Filipino Studies as well as community input. There are selected lessons available for free preview. Check them out. If you don't see something you'd like to learn, reach out to us! 


You can check out some free resources that I have always made available to the community based on the university-level course I have been teaching for the last decade. I will bring some of these resources (and also expand upon them) into this course offered through the School for Liberating Education. 

Course curriculum

    1. Know History, Know Self: Course Overview

    2. How to use this course (Navigating Thinkific)

    3. A Little Bit About Me

    4. A Critical Approach

    5. Reading: PACE Demands for Filipino Studies (1968)

    6. SF State activist details fight for ethnic studies

    7. Reading, Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum

    1. Remembering Our Collective Filipino American (Hi)Stories

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. An Introduction to a Critical Filipinx Perspective - Readings

    3. What is YOUR origin story?

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Reimagining Filipino History at St. Malo, Louisiana - Michael Sagarolo

    5. Journeys to St. Malo: A History of Filipino Louisiana by Michael Menor Salgarolo

    6. Filipinos in Louisiana - resources

    7. A Sampling of Books on the Filipino-American War

    8. Lecture on Philippine American War

    9. "How the U.S. Prison System traces its roots to the Philippines?" with Dr. Benjamin Weber

    10. Policing Empires by Dr. Julian Go

    11. Reading: "African-American soldiers and Filipinos: racial imperialism, Jim Crow and social relations," by S. Ngozi Brown

    12. Early Black-Filipino Solidarity in the U.S.

    13. US Imperialism and Filipino Migration

    14. Early Filipino Migration Experience - Readings

    1. Reading: "Chronology of Filipinos in America Pre-1898," by Eloisa Gomez Borah

    2. A Sakada Story

    3. Peacock: Exeter, the Anti-Filipino Riot

    4. Contemporary Filipino Migration Experience - Readings

    5. Reading: "Filipino Americans, Foreigner Discrimination, and the lines of Racial Sovereignty," by Angelo Ancheta

    6. "'Don't Stay Out in the Sun': Understanding Filipinx and Colorism" with Dr. Joanne Rondilla

      FREE PREVIEW

    7. How is Filipino/Filipina/Filipinz Freedom tied to Black Liberation

    8. Brown Skin, White Masks: Colorism and Internal Colonization

    9. Brown is Beautiful: Decolonizing our Minds and Bodies

    10. Tatlong Bagsak: Combating Anti-Blackness in Filipina/x/o Communities

    11. Be the Imposter: Ancestral Wisdom for Renegade Researchers with Dr. Robyn Rodriguez

    12. FilipinX: Transforming and Unsettling Identities

    13. Filipinos on the Frontlines: COVID-19

    1. The Second Generation - Readings

    2. Decolonizing Children's Book Publishing with Justine Villanueva

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Reading, "WHERE IS THE DIVERSITY IN PUBLISHING? THE 2019 DIVERSITY BASELINE SURVEY RESULTS"

    4. Reading: "Cooperative Children's Book Center: Diversity Statistics"

    5. “Is it mental illness, or is it your trauma from colonization?” Healing Generational Trauma and Making Space for Emotions

    6. Parenting with Pride: Resources for Children

    7. Resources for Mental Health Support for Filipino Families

    8. Beyond Adobo and Lumpia: Filipino Food in the Diaspora

    1. Flip Hop: Filipinos in Hip Hop - Rappers, B-Boys, DJs, and more

    2. The Importance of Larry Itliong

    3. Filipino Americans on Film

    4. Little Manila, Historic Filipinotown: Creating Islands of Belonging in a Sea of Hostility

    5. "Unite to Fight (How To Run a Campaign)" with Raymond Castillo

    6. Filipino American Activism & Resources for Getting Involved

    7. Filipino American Prose & Poetry

    1. Igorotak: Why My Father's Ifugao Identity Became an Issue with J.A. Ruanto-Ramirez

    2. Baybaylan: Gender and Sexuality before Colonization

    3. Decolonizing as a Spiritual Path

    4. Reading: "Bridging Indigenous and Immigrant Struggles: A Case Study of American Samoa," by JoAnna Poblete-Cross

    5. Indigenous Writing Systems: Baybayin

    6. "What Being Indigenous Has Taught Me" with Kirin Macapugay

About this course

  • $575 x 2
  • 60 lessons
  • 6.5 hours of video content