![]() ![]() That autobiographical novel is America is in the Heart (1946), and if I were to nominate one book that all Americans desperately need to read and discuss in 2019, I might well settle on Bulosan’s. Yet he not only persevered and triumphed, but wrote a unique, compelling, shattering, and deeply moving autobiographical novel based on his experiences. ![]() But he came at a time of rising hostility and xenophobia toward his culture, and encountered much discrimination and oppression-along with anti-labor crackdowns, institutional racism, and police brutality-at every turn. He was far from the first from his country to do so indeed, there had been Filipino American communities since before there was a United States, dating back to the first fishing villages in mid-18th century Spanish Louisiana. In the early 1930’s, a time of economic turmoil and inequality, and a period of deep national tensions and divisions, Carlos Bulosan immigrated to the United States from the Philippines to find work as a migrant laborer. ![]()
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