Victorio Acosta Velasco: An American Life

by Michael S. Brown

This work is a biography of Victorio Acosta Velasco, a Filipino-born journalist and labor leader who immigrated to the United States in 1924. At this time, thousands of young Filipinos were coming to America to further their education, find opportunity, and realize the idealism the U.S. was rumored to offer. Upon arriving in Seattle, however, Velasco learned that the 'American Dream' hardly applied to dark-skinned immigrants. Devalued by the workforce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761838007
• ISBN13: 9780761838005
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"