Uncle Rico's Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle

by Peter Bacho

Book Overview

Winner of the Silver Prize 2022 PubWest Book Design Award (Adult Trade - Non-Illustrated)

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy community

From the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-born children faced more subtle forms of racism, such as the low expectations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295749776
• ISBN13: 9780295749778
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher