Books by Rick Bonus

Rick Bonus tells the stories of Pacific Islander students at the University of Washington as they and their allies struggled to transform a university they believed did not value their presence into a space based on meaningfulness, respect, and multiple notions of student success.

Shows how Filipino Americans counter exclusion by actively engaging in alternative practices of community building. This book presents an ethnographic study of Filipino American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego that presents a multi-disciplinary cultural analysis of the relationship between ethnic identity and social space.