American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941 by Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony [in AsianWeek]
30 May, by in Adult Readers, Filipina/o American, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American
A history of a changing Filipino population in and around Seattle, bookended by both World Wars.
Review: "New and Notable Books," AsianWeek, May 30, 2009
Readers: Adult
Published: 2003...
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