![]() ![]() The young man would soon encounter a racist America that brutalized poor immigrants and lowly migrant workers like himself. He traveled the West Coast in search of jobs in farms and orchards and even made it to the canneries of Alaska. It was this Seattle and its landscape of desolation that met Bulosan. ![]() ![]() CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Landscape of desolationīulosan, a school dropout, disembarked at the port of Magnolia (now Pier 91) on steerage aboard the Dollar Line from Manila in July 1930, when the Philippines was still an American colony.įar from the tech hub that it is today, Seattle was a muddy shantytown reeling from the economic collapse of 1929 that left people without jobs, without homes and without food. HIS LEGACY IS IN THEIR HEARTS The author at the grave of Carlos Bulosan, an immigrant who struggled to survive and faced racism in the United States before becoming one of the greatest Filipino writers of his generation. ![]()
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