HAWAI’I : A PILIPINO DREAM

Title: HAWAI’I : A PILIPINO DREAM

Includes Bibliography. Softcover. Gives “voice to a Pilipino plantation laborer, Bonipasyo” and the struggles of the sakadas. The author writes in the voice of an immigrant plantation laborer, Bonipasyo, who shares his life stories as he helps build the sugar industry in Hawaii. TV personality Emme Tomimbang writes—“a very poignant, sometimes graphic and shocking look at the harsh realities of the American Dream … it helps us understand ourselves, our own Filipino identity and what our lives in America and Hawaii is all about.”

Price: $15.95

Author: Virgilio Menor Felipe

Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, 2002, p.212