Carlos Bulosan
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He was active in labor politics along the Pacific coast of the United States and edited the 1952 Yearbook for ILWU Local 37, a predominantly Filipino American cannery union based in Seattle. There is some controversy surrounding the accuracy of events recorded within America is in the Heart. He is celebrated for giving a "Third World" perspective to the labor movement in America and for telling the experience of Filipinos during the 30' and 40's.
In the 1970's, with a resurgence in Asian/Pacific Island activism, his writings were discovered in a library in the University of Washington leading to posthumous releases of several unfinished works.
His other novels include The Laughter of My Father and the posthumously published The Cry and the Dedication which detailed the armed Huk Rebellion in the Philippines.
As a progressive writer of labor struggles, he was blacklisted by the FBI due to his labor organizing and socialist writings. Denied a means to provide for himself his later years were of hardship and flight. He died in Seattle suffering
