Jamero (Peter) papers, 1938-2025

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Summary

Title:
Peter Jamero papers
Dates:
1938-2025
Creators:
Jamero, Peter M.
Abstract:
Personal and professional materials of Peter Jamero, former community activist, researcher, and educator.
Extent:
7.51 Linear Feet (18 document boxes)
Language:
English , Tagalog .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Peter Jamero papers, CEMA 185. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains correspondence, organizational records, photographs, audio visual material, and a variety of ephemera related to Peter Jamero's life as a Filipino American, including materials from Filipino American National Historical Society, of which Jamero was a founding member and former Vice President.

Most of the materials document Jamero's work with various government and non-profit organizations in the form of newspaper clippings, organizational meeting agendas, notes, speeches, and photographs. Also included are signed copies of his books Growing up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American and Vanishing Filipino Americans: The Bridge Generation, chapter drafts, book reviews, and other ephemera related to Jamero's signings and other events related to his publications.

Biographical / historical:

Peter Jamero (August 27, 1930-November 22, 2024) was a founding member and former Vice President of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS). Born in Oakdale, California, as a son of Filipino immigrants he was considered a Bridge Generation (second-generation) Filipino American. Jamero attended University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where he earned a Master's degree in Social Work. He was an educator and served as an administrator in local, state, and federal government as well as in the private and non-profit sectors.

Jamero held high-level executive positions directing health and human services programs throughout the country. These programs include Assistant Secretary of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services; Director of the Washington State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation; Director of the King County (WA) Department of Human Resources; Vice President of the United Way of King County; Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission; Branch Chief in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington, D.C.; and Executive Director of the Asian American Recovery Services in San Francisco. He also taught as an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine of the University of Washington.

He authored two memoirs that chronicled his experience growing up as a Filipino in California's Central Valley - Growing up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American (University of Washington Press, 2006) and Vanishing Filipino Americans: The Bridge Generation (University Press of America, 2011).

The Peter Jamero Papers collection was established in CEMA in 2017.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Peter Jamero, 2017 and 2021.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by subject and format into seven series:

  • Series 1: Personal and biographical files
  • Series 2: Correspondence
  • Series 3: Organizational files
  • Series 4: Subject files
  • Series 5: Publications
  • Series 6: Born-digital files
  • Series 7: Audiovisual materials

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Mari Khasmanyan, Chelsea Lumidao, 2017; revised by Calli Force, 2019. Finding aid updated by Rebecca Vasquez, April 2025.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-21 12:10:08 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.

All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Peter Jamero papers, CEMA 185. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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