American Workers, Colonial Power - Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941

"An immensely ambitious book, American Workers, Colonial Power is a regional history with ever widening spatial and social circles, each one layered and complex. Filipina/o Seattle, this study shows, reflects and exemplifies much of the American West and U.S., and affirms the mutually influential relationship, especially in terms of culture, between the U.S. and the Philippines. This is a work of deep scholarship and broad significance."—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology
Introduction: The Role of Colonialism

Part One: CHARTING THE PACIFIC
1. Empire and Migration
2. Education in the Metropole

Part Two: WORKING THE AMERICAN WEST
3. Region and Labor
4. Crossings and Connections

Part Three:POWER AND CHOICE
5. Resistance, Return, and Organization
6. Insiders and Outsiders

Conclusion: The Past and the Furture
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony is Associate Professor of the Asian American Studies Department and Affiliate to the History Department at the University of California, Irvine. She coedited Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies (1995).

Summary

Historically, Filipina/o Americans have been one of the oldest and largest Asian American groups in the United States. This work 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy B. Fujita Rony, Dorothy B Fujita-rony, Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony, Fujita-Rony Dorothy B., Dorothy B. Fujita Rony
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2003
• EAN: 9780520230958
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23095-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / United States / General, Local History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, US West