Growing Up as Bridge Generation Members: Two Daughters in Chicago

Abstract

Abstract: "Growing Up as Bridge Generation Members: Two Daughters in Chicago" compares and contrasts the formative years of Fran Alayu Womack (1931–2014) and Barbara M. Posadas (1945–present), who were both born in Chicago before 1946 — Womack to Filipino immigrant parents and Posadas to a Filipino immigrant father and a Polish American mother. Their experiences are cast against those of West Coast Bridge Generation members examined by Peter Jamero in Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American (2006) and Vanishing Filipino Americans: The Bridge Generation (2011). Like Posadas in Chicago, Donald L. Guimary and Albert A. Acena, both on the West Coast, earned doctorates and participated in FANHS.