#winning

...is my middle name. No, seriously. Ask me why.
kristinaashley:

fuckyeahapihistory:
Silver Cariaso (left) and two other men lean on a car in a neighborhood in Watts, Los Angeles. 1959.

Filipinos established a presence in Los Angeles beginning in the 1920s. With the passage of the 1924 federal immigration law excluding Japanese immigration, a vacuum developed in the agricultural labor market. Most of the Filipino newcomers were young, single males who came as sojourners—“birds of passage”—intending to work temporarily and return eventually to their homeland. The rampant racist sentiments originally directed against the Chinese and Japanese were now turned on the Filipinos, including a powerful organized movement for exclusion and repatriation. Those Filipinos remaining in Los Angeles found themselves isolated in the poorest slums. 

kristinaashley:

fuckyeahapihistory:

Silver Cariaso (left) and two other men lean on a car in a neighborhood in Watts, Los Angeles. 1959.

Filipinos established a presence in Los Angeles beginning in the 1920s. With the passage of the 1924 federal immigration law excluding Japanese immigration, a vacuum developed in the agricultural labor market. Most of the Filipino newcomers were young, single males who came as sojourners—“birds of passage”—intending to work temporarily and return eventually to their homeland. The rampant racist sentiments originally directed against the Chinese and Japanese were now turned on the Filipinos, including a powerful organized movement for exclusion and repatriation. Those Filipinos remaining in Los Angeles found themselves isolated in the poorest slums. 

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