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

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index Notes English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Filipino Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- History -- 20th century Filipino Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Social conditions -- 20th century Immigrants -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- History -- 20th century Immigrants -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Social conditions -- 20th century HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations Filipino Americans Filipino Americans -- Social conditions Immigrants Immigrants -- Social conditions Social conditions SUBJECT Seattle (Wash.) -- Ethnic relations Seattle (Wash.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Philippines -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century Seattle (Wash.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century Subject Philippines Washington (State) -- Seattle Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021696514 ISBN 9780520927728 0520927729 1282758993 9781282758995 9786612758997 6612758996

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