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Upon his death, union leader Chris
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records, but according to the
Lorenzo Duyanen Sampayan, his childhood playmate and nephew, Bulosan was born on November 2, 1913. Most of his youth was spent in the countryside as a farmer. It is during his youth that he and his family were economically impoverished by the rich and political elite,
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In 2018, the
Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies Initiative was established at the University of California, Davis to carry on his legacy of activism through research and advocacy of the Filipino and Filipino-American community. The initiative backs the creation of a physical Bulosan Center for
251:, Asian immigrant perspective to the labor movement in America and for telling the experience of Filipinos working in the U.S. during the 1930s and '40s. In the 1970s, with a resurgence in Asian/Pacific Islander American activism, his unpublished writings were discovered in a library in the
137:(November 24, 1913 – September 11, 1956) was a Filipino American novelist and poet who immigrated to the United States on July 1, 1930. He never returned to the Philippines and he spent most of his life in the United States. His best-known work today is the
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His works did not immediately garner widespread appreciation. For two decades after his death, his work was largely forgotten, until a group of young Asian
Americans rediscovered his works and led to the republication of
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which would become one of the main themes of his writing. His home town is also the starting point of his semi-autobiographical novel,
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of the 1950s. Denied a means to provide for himself, his later years were of illness, hardship, and alcoholism. He died in
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typewriter, a twenty-year old suit, unfinished manuscripts, worn out sock; Finances: Zero. Beneficiary: His people."
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and broadly disseminating knowledge about Filipinos for the purpose of advancing their rights and welfare.
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leading to posthumous releases of several unfinished works and anthologies of his poetry.
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Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935–1947
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along the Pacific coast of the United States and edited the 1952 Yearbook for
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Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-to-Z Guide
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