Filipino Americans

The growth of Seattle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is inseparable from the arrival of laborers from the US-colonized Philippines.

Members of what is perhaps the oldest Asian community in the United States are committed to preserving—and sharing—their story.

The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.

The belief of first-generation Japanese immigrants in their racial superiority over Filipinos was a by-product of the San Joaquin Delta's white hegemony.

A new history of labor organizing in Coachella tells us the story of the United Farm Workers and how its rank-and-file members drove the union to success.

A Filipino woman died after coming to the U.S. to be put on display at the 1904 World's Fair. A Smithsonian anthropologist likely took part of her brain.

A location-based timeline and interactive map of the L.A. Zoot Suit Riots.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.

"They’re eating the pets of the people that live there," former President Trump claimed — with no basis — at the first presidential debate.

In the 20th century, American Communists were seen as an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with complex lives that deserve to be chronicled.

Vito Marcantonio fought racial, social, and economic injustices, promoting cross-cultural solidarity and progressive ideals amid McCarthyism and segregation.

How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in his landmark farmworkers' march.

How new arrivals remade the east San Gabriel Valley — and assimilated in it.

Fifty years after his father declared martial law, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was welcomed in New York.

Seeing the war from the perspective of citizens of U.S. colonies sheds new light on the impact of World War II.

Uniting for better wages and working conditions, a remarkably diverse coalition of laborers faced off against agribusiness.

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.

Ninety years ago in Washington, a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment resulted in horror for Filipinos.