ASAlex S. Fabros

1. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Alex S. Fabros, Jr.

   When the Youngest Manong Becomes the Elder — Positively Filipino | Online Magazine for Filipinos in the Diaspora (opens the original)

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   Life has a way of changing that perspective. When the third group of manongs and manangs is honored on August 8, I will be sitting in the audience as their names are called and their accomplishments are recognized. Yet this time, I will be older than many of the people standing on the stage. The youngest manong from the first group will have become, in the quiet arithmetic of time, one of the elders watching the next group receive its honor. That realization carries both humor and meaning. Age a

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2. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Alex S. Fabros, Jr.

   A Pathbreaker for Ethnic Studies — Positively Filipino | Online Magazine for Filipinos in the Diaspora (opens the original)

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   First, he was part of the San Francisco State College movement of 1968–1969, when the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front forced the university to confront the exclusion of Black, Asian American, Latino, and Native American students from admissions, curriculum, faculty hiring, and institutional power. Second, and just as important, Gonzales was among those who remained after the strike and helped build Asian American Studies into a permanent program of teaching, advising, cu

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