| Filipinos in Puget Sound Contributor(s): Laigo Cordova, Dorothy (Author), Filipino American National Historical So (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738571342 ISBN-13: 9780738571348 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies |
| Dewey: 979.7 |
| LCCN: 2008941565 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.5" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Geographic Orientation - Washington - Locality - Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wa - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which contains a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests and waters teeming with salmon. Seattle was the closest mainland American port to the Far East. In 1909, the "Igorotte Village" was the most popular venue at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and the first Filipina war bride arrived. Filipinos laid telephone and telegraph cables from Seattle to Alaska; were seamen, U.S. Navy recruits, students, and cannery workers; and worked in lumber mills, restaurants, or as houseboys. With one Filipina woman to 30 men, most early Filipino families in the Puget Sound were interracial. After World War II, communities grew with the arrival of new war brides, military families, immigrants, and exchange students and workers. Second-generation Pinoys and Pinays began their families. With the 1965 revision of U.S. immigration laws, the Filipino population in Puget Sound cities, towns, and farm areas grew rapidly and changed dramatically--as did all of Puget Sound. |
Contributor Bio(s): Laigo Cordova, Dorothy: - The national office of the Filipino American National Historical Society shares this history through more than 230 photographs. For more than 30 years, Dorothy Laigo Cordova, FAN HS executive director, has recorded oral histories and collected vintage photographs of Filipinos in America. |