Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student project for LSCI 110 – Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College

 An Interview with Reggie Malabey

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2008 interview by Charina Sunga
with Reggie Malabey, a second generation Sakada living in Daly City.   

Reggie Malabey

 

Table of Contents:
1. Intro 
2. How Grandparents Migrated to Hawaii

3. Living Conditions in the Plantation

4. Discrimination within the Plantation

5. Opportunity of Education for Plantation Workers

6. His Parents

7. What’s life after Plantation

8. His Identity

9. His Filipino side

10.    Ethnic Identity Problems

11.    Job Discrimination

 

Segment 1
Intro (0:00:17)
Reggie Malabey

 

Baby Reggie

 

 

 

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Segment 2
How Grandparents Migrated to Hawaii (0:01:13)
His grandparents as plantation workers at the Dole and C&H plantation

 

Reggie’s Grandmother with Grand Kids

 

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Segment 3
Living Conditions within the Plantations (0:00:46)
Housing at the plantations

 

Dole Plantation Field

 

 


    

 

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Segment 4
Discrimination within the Plantation (0:01:02)
Plantation were predominantly Filipinos as workers 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Segment 5
Opportunity of Education for Plantation Workers (0:00:34)
Education for migrant workers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Segment 6
His Parents  (0:01:15)
Reggie’s parents

 

Reggie’s Mother

 

 

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Segment 7
What’s Life After Plantation (0:01:25)
His grandmother remarrying after the plantation 

 

 

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Segment 8
His Identity  (0:00:15)
Reggie’s own identity

 

 

 

 

 

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Segment 9 (0:01:23)
His Filipino Side  
Seeing himself as being Brown

 

 

 

 Reggie at age 10

 

 

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Segment 10
Ethnic Identity Problems (0:01:10)
People assuming he is someone else.

 

Reggie and his siblings

 

 

 

 

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Segment 11
Job Discrimination  (0:00:31)
Considering himself Pacific Islander.

 

 

 

 

 

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last revised: 6-3-08
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit the author and cite the source as: North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library.
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