Carlos Bulosan, was a Filipino American Author, poet, activist and is best-remembered for novel “America Is In The Heart,” originally published in 1946. He played a major role in the rise of the Filipino community across the country and the emergence of the Filipino American labor movement. Through his progressive anti-colonial, pro-labor humanitarian voice by an array of communities including Asian/Pacific Islanders, organized labor, academics and intellectuals. They suffered the ordeals of racisms and traumatic experiences as workers in the United States. Mostly working on plantations, they were discriminated more often than they were appreciated.
Bulosan passed away on September 11th of 1956 in Seattle, Washington. His novel “American is