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A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the U.S. pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row . Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s. Carlos's experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the American dream. Bulosan was one of the most important 20th century social critics with his deeply moving account of what it was like to be criminalized in the U.S. as a Filipino migrant d

Who reads America Is in the Heart : a Personal History?

Author

Carlos Bulosan; Elaine Castillo; E. San Juan, Jr.; Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Classics

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143137238

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (1,392 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13