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  • Carlos Bulosan in a suit and hat standing in front of a wooden door.

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    Carlos Bulosan in front of door, approximately 1940s

    Carlos Bulosan in front of door, ca. 1940

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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  • Man in overalls and a hat peeling produce. In the background, another agricultural laborer is visible with their back turned.

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    Snapshots of agricultural laborers

    An anonymous Filipino man working to process fruit, circa 1930, illustrates the hard labor and low wages that many Filipino immigrants faced during this time in the United States.

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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  • Two men dressed in coats, gloves, and hats processing salmon in a factory.

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    Filipino Alaskeros

    Filipino salmon processing workers in Alaska, known as “Alaskeros,” who worked in Alaska in summer and then the “farm factories” of California and eastern Washington in other seasons.

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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  • A group of men sit around a table leisurely, enjoying a drink.

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    Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union Local 37

    Carlos Bulosan and Chris Mensalvas, former union leaders, stand alongside fellow workers in this photo.

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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  • A 1973 copy and 2014 copy of America Is In the Heart by Carlos Bulosan.

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    America Is In The Heart

    America Is In the Heart’s 1973 and 2014 editions

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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  • The book cover of On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan. An agricultural laborer squats in a field and an opaque image of carlos bulosan is overlayed on top.

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    On Becoming Filipino

    On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan edited by E. San Juan Jr.

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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    Freedom from Want

    In 1943, the Post commissioned four writers to craft an essay to accompany each of Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings, which had quickly come to represent America’s moral imperative during World War II

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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  • "I Want the Wide American Earth" by Carlos Bulosan. "Before the brave, before the proud builders and workers, I say I want the wide American earth, Its beautiful rivers and long valleys and fertile plains, Its numberless hamlets and expanding towns and towering cities, Its limitless frontiers, its probing intelligence, For all the free. Free men everywhere in my land— This wide American earth—do not wander homeless, And are not alone; friendship is our bread, love our air; And we call each other comrade, each growing with the other, Each a neighbor to the other, boundless in freedom."

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    I Want the Wide American Earth

    Carlos Bulosan’s signed poem, “I Want the Wide American Earth,” as part of a fundraiser for Local 37 officers’ legal defense fund, who were facing deportation.

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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    The Seattle Times

    The Seattle Times wrote an editorial on its front page that described Filipino migrants as a “problem.”

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  • Philip Vera Cruz at boycott meeting.

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    Philip Vera Cruz, boycott meeting, ca. 1970s

    Philip Vera Cruz (center), Vice President of the United Farm Workers (UFW), and unidentified men at a boycott meeting, c. 1970s

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 5
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  • The Mochida family stands for a photo while waiting for the evacuation bus. Each member has a tag around their neck, and at their feet are three bags marked "Mochida."

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    The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II

    Stan Yogi

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  • Young Kimiko Kitagaki waits in Oakland for a bus to transport her to a government camp, with tags with her name and government-assigned family number attached to her suitcase.

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    Module 1: Overview & Introduction

    Stan Yogi

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    The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
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    Module 2: Setting the Stage for Japanese American Mass Incarceration

    Stan Yogi

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    The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
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  • The Mochida family stands for a photo while waiting for the evacuation bus. Each member has a tag around their neck, and at their feet are three bags marked "Mochida."

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    Module 3: Forced Uprooting and Incarceration

    Stan Yogi

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    The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
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  • Several officers crowd around as an officer grabs an inmate in the Tule Lake jail. The inmates clothes are ripped.

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    Module 4: Cooperation, Resistance, and Dissent

    Stan Yogi

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    The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
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  • Nagaishi family standing in front of their garage that is vandalized with the words "No Japs Wanted." The father is holding a young boy in his arms while standing next to his wife and young daughter.

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    Module 5: Starting Over

    Stan Yogi

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    The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
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  • A group of activists from the Van Troi Youth Brigade march during a demonstration.

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    Module 6: Redress and Solidarity

    Stan Yogi

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    The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
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  • Family portrait of the Tape family in 1884. Joseph and Mary are sitting on chairs while Joseph has Emily on his lap. Mamie and Frank are sitting between them. Label at the bottom reads 'Brown, 606 Kearny Street, San Francisco.'

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    The Tape Family and Chinese American Civil Rights

    Mae Ngai

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  • Family portrait of the Tape family in 1884. Joseph and Mary are sitting on chairs while Joseph has Emily on his lap. Mamie and Frank are sitting between them. Label at the bottom reads 'Brown, 606 Kearny Street, San Francisco.'

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    Module 1: That Chinese Girl

    Mae Ngai

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    The Tape Family and Chinese American Civil Rights
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