Sign Threatens Violence Against Filipinos – 05.02.005.IMG_WEMP.PosterThreateningFilipinos.Calisphere.calher_cubanc_25_50_00141222

These images represent starkly different views Americans held towards Filipinos in the first several decades of the twentieth century. This 1930 sign posted in Watsonville, California, coincided with violent attacks against Filipino farmworkers there.

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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.

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