![]() ![]() Jamero describes his early life in a farm-labor camp in Livingston, California, and the path that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far beyond Livingston. ![]() ![]() His book is a sequel of sorts to Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, with themes of heartbreaking struggle against racism and poverty and eventual triumph. ![]() residency to the liberalization of immigration laws in 1965. Their experiences span the gap between these early immigrants and those Filipinos who owe their U.S. Peter Jamero’s story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of what he calls the “bridge generation” - the American-born children of the Filipinos recruited as farm workers in the 1920s and 30s. It was a place where the values of fairness and freedom often fell short when Filipinos put them to the test.”"- Peter Jamero As a campo boy, I also began to see the two faces of America, a place where Filipinos were at once welcomed and excluded, were considered equal and were discriminated against. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. It was as a ‘campo’ boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. "I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference - my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. ![]()
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