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Author Fujita-Rony, Dorothy B., 1964-

Title American workers, colonial power : Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941 / Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index.
Contents I: Charting the Pacific -- Empire and migration -- Education in the Metropole -- II: Working the American West -- Region and labor -- Crossings and connections -- III: Power and choice -- Resistance, return, and organization -- Insiders and outsiders -- The past and the future.
Summary Publisher's description: Historically, Filipina/o Americans have been one of the oldest and largest Asian American groups in the United States. In this pathbreaking work of historical scholarship, Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony traces the evolution of Seattle as a major site for Philippine immigration between World Wars I and II and examines the dynamics of the community through the frameworks of race, place, gender, and class. By positing Seattle as a colonial metropolis for Filipina/os in the United States, Fujita-Rony reveals how networks of transpacific trade and militarism encouraged migration to the city, leading to the early establishment of a Filipina/o American community in the area. By the 1920s and 1930s, a vibrant Filipina/o American society had developed in Seattle, creating a culture whose members, including some who were not of Filipina/o descent, chose to pursue options in the U.S. or in the Philippines. Fujita-Rony also shows how racism against Filipina/o Americans led to constant mobility into and out of Seattle, making it a center of a thriving ethnic community in which only some remained permanently, given its limited possibilities for employment. The book addresses class distinctions as well as gender relations, and also situates the growth of Filipina/o Seattle within the regional history of the American West, in addition to the larger arena of U.S.-Philippines relations.
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Subject Filipino Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- History -- 20th century.
Filipino Americans.
Washington (State) -- Seattle.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Filipino Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Immigrants -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- History -- 20th century.
Immigrants.
Immigrants -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Seattle (Wash.) -- Ethnic relations.
Seattle (Wash.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Philippines -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Philippines.
Emigration and immigration.
Seattle (Wash.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Seattle (Wash.) -- Condiciones sociales -- Siglo XX.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fujita-Rony, Dorothy B., 1964- American workers, colonial power. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 9780520230958 (DLC) 2001052279 (OCoLC)48140788
ISBN 9780520927728 (electronic book)
0520927729 (electronic book)