AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pastoralism, Miscegenation, No Baggage
Document Summary
Carlos bulosan, america is in the heart (1946) Left for seattle when he was 17. Became a labor activist in the us. Majority of his writing was found and published posthumously. Died in 1956 -> most of his work was discovered. Part 1: takes place in the philippines. We can understand the book at the crossroads of u. s. and u. s. - philippine history. Colonial presence in the philippines starts in the 16th century with the arrival of the. Spanish, who would stay on the island over the next 400 odd years. In a battle between the americans and the spanish over the island of cuba, american forces invaded the spanish held philippines. 1898- treaty of paris concludes the war. 1907- first group of filipino laborers arrive in hawaii. From 1907 to 1924, approximately 46,000 filipino men and 7,000 women immigrate to. 1946- the philippines gained its independence from the us.
