| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila: Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s–1950s. By Linda España-Maram. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xvi, 252 pp. Cloth, $69.50, ISBN 0-231-11592-X. Paper, $24.50, isbn 0-231-11593-8.)

Much recent writing on the history of Asian Americans before 1965 has challenged the traditional image of Asian American bachelor communities. Madeline Y. Hsu, Xiaojian Zhao, Dorothy Fujita-Rony, and this reviewer have all emphasized the role of women and families, either on-site or across the Pacific, among Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans. By contrast, Linda España-Maram returns the story to the bachelors— Filipinos in Los Angeles between the 1920s and 1950s. She thus extends and deepens Carlos Bulosan's semiautobiographical America Is in the Heart (1946), which sketched the lives of young, Depression-era Filipino agricultural workers along the Pacific slope, much as social historians a generation ago re- envisioned the Chicago eastern Europeans of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906).

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