America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

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Overview

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780295993539
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 04/01/2014
Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
Edition description: revised edition
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 218,591
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile: 850L (what's this?)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Carlos Bulosan(1913 - 1956) was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet. Born in the Philippines, he immigrated to the United States at age seventeen and worked as a farmworker, dishwasher, and ultimately, as a labor organizer in both Washington and California.

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Carlos Bulosan

It was a crime to be a Filipino in California. . . . The public streets were not free to my people: we were stopped each time these vigilant patrolmen saw us driving a car. We were suspect each time we were seen with a white woman. And perhaps it was this narrowing of our life into an island, into a filthy segment of American society that had driven Filipinos . . . inward, hating everyone and despising all positive urgencies toward freedom.

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