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Title: Peter Jamero papers
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 185
Language of Material: This collection is largely in English with some materials in Tagalog.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
7.51 Linear Feet
(18 document boxes)
Creator:
Jamero, Peter M.
Date (inclusive): 1938-2015
Abstract: Consists of 18 document boxes containing correspondence, organizational records, photographs, audio visual material, and a
variety of ephemera related to Peter Jamero's life as a Filipino American. The collection spans from 1938-2015.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Physical Location: Boxes 1-11: Stacks 1, Aisle 57 / Column 4. (Box 5: Stacks 1, Aisle 39 / Column 3.)
Boxes 12-13: Stacks 1, Aisle 57 / Column 4.
Boxes 14, 15, 18 and 20: Stacks 1, Aisle 57 / Column 3.
Boxes 16-17: S1-A70-C5-R5
Box 19: Stacks 1, Aisle 74 / Column 6.
This collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Peter Jamero papers, CEMA 185. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Peter Jamero, 2017.
Peter Jamero is a founding member and former Vice President of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS).
Currently residing in Atwater, CA, he is a Bridge Generation (second-generation) Filipino American. Mr. Jamero was born in
1930 in Oakdale, California, the son of Filipino immigrants. He is an educator and has been an administrator in local, state,
and federal government as well as in the private and non-profit sectors.
Mr. Jamero has 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.
Jamero was an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine of the University of Washington. He is the author of 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.
The collection consists of 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 in the collection 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.
The container list is arranged by subject with six series and ten sub-series.
Series One: Personal and biographical files
Series Two: Correspondence
Series Three: Organizational files
Series Four: Subject Files
Series Five: Publications
Series Siex: Born-digital files
Sub-series are divided into these subjetcs:
Boys and Girls Club
Department of Social and Health Services
Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS)
King County
Rainbow Valley Group Home
Seattle School Board
Growing up Brown: memoirs of a Filipino American.
Vanishing Filipino Americans: the bridge generation.
Vocational Rehabilitation's Role in Independent Living: Independent Living Issues.
Filipino American Young Turks of Seattle (FAYTS)
Within these subject folders are correspondence, transcripts, agendas, book reviews, marketing strategies, 22 magazines, 2
books authored and signed by Peter Jamero, speeches, presentations, photographs, contents from the Filipino American Grand
Reunions from 2003-2007, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera.
Archived links to Peter Jamero's website are available in the Manuscript Collections and Faculty Sites collection on the UCSB
Internet Archive.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Asian Americans -- California -- Social life and customs
Asian Americans -- Social conditions
Filipino Americans -- California -- Social life and customs
Filipino Americans -- Ethnic identity
Filipino Americans -- Social conditions
Administrative records
Born digital
Correspondence
Ephemera (general object genre)
Photographs
Publications (documents)
Jamero, Peter M. -- Archives
Filipino American National Historical Society -- Archives