American Workers, Colonial Power
Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19892201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy B Fujita Rony (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | American Workers, Colonial Power (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520927728 |
| OpenAlex | W4237660263 |
| Open Library | OL29585064M |
| ISBN | 9780520927728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
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
Archaeology · Colonialism · Physics · Political science · Power (physics) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Race, History, and American Society · emigration and immigration · Filipinos · Immigrants · Seattle · Social conditions · united states
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The Role of Hospitable and Inhospitable States in the Process of Refugee Resettlement in the United States
American colonial education policy and Filipino labour migration to the US (1900–1935)
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(De)Militarized Domesticity
Building Empire’s Archipelago
Beyond These Mythical Shores
The power of racial scripts
Dance and romance across racial boundaries
The changing contours of Asian-American historiography
Disorienting race and education
Putting queer to work
A Call for Healing
Disidentifying Nationalism
Splendid Dancing
Organization‐Led Migration, Individual Choice, and Refugee Resettlement in The U.S
Immigrants in the Labour Market
The Spectacular and the Mundane
Transnational contention, domestic integration
A Literary Remittance
Valorizing racial boundaries
The Racial Unconscious of Assimilation Theory1
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |