Filipinos in Washington, D.C. - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Juanita Tamayo Lott, Rita CacasSeries:Images of AmericaTheme:Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic, Ethnic Orientation/Asian, Geographic Orientation/District of Columbia, Locality/Washington, D.C.Publish date:11/1/2009Pages:130
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Arcadia Publishing (SC)ISBN-13:9780738566207ISBN-10:0738566209UPC:9780738566207Book Category:History, Social Science, PhotographyBook Subcategory:United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:State & Local, Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, HistoricalSize:9.10 x 6.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.318Product ID:SCW5Q5JWAP
Filipinos arrived in the Washington, D.C., area shortly after 1900 upon the annexation of the Philippines to the United States. These new settlers included students, soldiers, seamen, and laborers.
Within four decades, they became permanen
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Arcadia Publishing (SC)ISBN-13:9780738566207ISBN-10:0738566209UPC:9780738566207Book Category:History, Social Science, PhotographyBook Subcategory:United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:State & Local, Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, HistoricalSize:9.10 x 6.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.318Product ID:SCW5Q5JWAP
Rita M. Cacas is a native Washingtonian and daughter of one of the Depression-era pioneers. A longtime federal government employee, Cacas previously worked at the National Gallery of Art and currently works at the U.S. National Archives. Juanita Tamayo Lott was raised in San Francisco, but her adulthood has been spent in the Washington, D.C., area. She is a retired federal senior demographer, policy analyst, and special assistant to the U.S. Census Bureau director. She cofounded the first U.S. Filipino American Studies at San Francisco State in 1969 and the Filipino American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2007.
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