“It was a crime to be a Filipino in California,” the poet and labor organizer Carlos Bulosan wrote in his 1943 half-novel, half-memoir, “America Is in the Heart.” The son of subsistence farmers, he came from what was then the American territory of the Philippines to the United States during the Great Depression along with some 100,000 migrant workers, almost all men, almost all poor and desperate. AMERICA IS NOT THE HEART By Elaine Castillo 480 pp.
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