3. Writer’s Notebook: History vs. Heritage, # 12
1. What do you think you know
about Filipina/o American
history? How did you acquire
that knowledge?
2. What’s the difference between
“history” &“heritage”?
4. 1. Discuss how your response
differed from this historian’s
distinction between “history”
and “heritage”.
2. Why might this distinction be
significant, i.e., what makes
this difference so important?
3. What are the risks of mixing up
the “history” and “heritage”?
4. Who (or what) benefits if we
mistake “history” for “heritage”?
5. Little Manila is in the Heart: Dawn Mabalon
1. Read for Content & Strategies
2. How do Mabalon’s ideas about history complicate or
clarify your responses about history and heritage?
3. Return to your “History vs. Heritage” entry. PIck up where
you left off. Use a stem (or make up your own):
a. Now that I’ve spent time thinking about Dawn
Mabalon’s work, I think/feel/wonder . . .
b. Mabalon’s theorizing about history made me realize . . .
c. Exploring Mabalon’s work made me re-discover (or
reconsider) . . .
