![]() ![]() ![]() The Filipino American population composes the largest Asian population in California and it continues to grow, yet the story of Filipinos and their official efforts in the farm labor movement is an untold part of California history.(1) The goal of AB 123 is to supplement California’s rich farm worker history with the contributions of the Filipino American community. Assembly member Rob Bonta, who sponsored the bill, explained: On October 2, 2013, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 123, a bill that will require public school instruction featuring Filipino Americans’ contributions to the farm labor movement in California. Below, we feature an excerpt from this introduction. Alquizola and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi eloquently situate this classic work within a contemporary context while also highlighting the book’s legacy in Filipino American literature as well as in labor and immigration history. In the new 2014 edition of the book, Marilyn C. First published in 1943, America is in the Heart -a classic memoir by Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan-describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West. ![]()
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