San Francisco's International Hotel

Estella Habal is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, San Jose State University, and a member of the Board of Directors, Manilatown Heritage Foundation.

• Introduction "Coming Home to a Fresh Crop of Rice"; 1 Manilatown, Manongs, and the Student Radicals; 2 A Home or a Parking Lot: Human Rights vs. Property Rights, 1968-1969; 3 Peace with a Lease, 1969-1974; 4 The Tiger Leaps: Fighting the Four Seas Investment Corporation, 1974-1977; 5 "Makibaka! Dare to Struggle!" The IHTA and the KDP, 1977; 6 People's Power vs. Propertied Elites, 1977; 7 The Fall of the I-Hotel, 1977-1979; Conclusion: The Rise of the I-Hotel, 1979-2005

"[Habal's] analysis of the shifting alliances among local politicians, tenant rights groups, and the I-Hotel leadership is particularly insightful as is her analysis of [the Union of Democratic Filipinos]... Habal has provided an invaluable study of an important movement struggle." -Journal of American History