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.

American workers, colonial power : Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941

Fujita-Rony, Dorothy B.

University of California Press

2003

2003.500.4581