Editor's Note: This list is a companion resource to Patrick Rosal's essay, "Mutual Regard: A Love Letter for the Origins of Black-Filipino Resistance."

Memes and other social media posts rarely reveal their sources, which poses a serious problem for scholars of Filipino descent, as their research labor is erased. Particularly for Filipino Americans, this means much of the energy invested not just in the research itself, but in fighting to make that research available — in one's department, discipline — is dismissed. People risk their careers with such commitment, which is in fact vital to our understanding of the construction of the idea of America. I am not a historian or theorist by training, but as a poet, I've had to learn some of their tools. Below is a brief bibliography of books that have been sources of information and even inspiration when thinking about Black-Filipino mutual regard. I acknowledge that the list is painfully incomplete. I encourage readers to familiarize themselves with the incredible efforts of our Filipino researchers. I am deeply grateful to the networks of thinking, feeling, writing, and making that make my own wondering possible.

— Patrick Rosal

Gina Apostol, Insurrecto	Christine Balance, Tropical Renditions
Nerissa Balce, Body Parts of Empire	Jason Bayani, Locus
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire	W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk
Luis Francia, A History of the Philippines from Indios Bravos to Filipinos	Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
Willard B. Gatewood Jr., Smoked Yankees	Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, Helen Toribio, The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons
Allan Punzalan Isaac, American Tropics	Aimee Suzara, Souvenir
Vince Schleitwiler, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific	Vestiges of War, edited by Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia
Positively No Filipinos Allowed, edited by Antonio T. Tiongson, Ric V. Gutierrez and Ed V. Gutierrez	Affairs in the Philippine Islands: Hearings Before the Committee on the Philippine Islands, U.S. Senate, Volumes 1-3
Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro