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ompelled to leave in 1927 but later he returned to hawaii via california and helped revive the filipino federation of labor after which he was deported to the colony lopez 2014 one other filipino worker in hawaii pedro calosa formed an association called beginning of progress was imprisoned and deported for labor agitation in 1927 back in pangasinan he organized a local group in 1929 and led the 1931 tayug peasant insurrection although violently quelled the uprising signalled a resurgence of populist transformative energies that nourished the 1896 revolution against spanish feudal landlordism which continues to this day constantino 1975 it is this action by a provincemate a deported sojourner from hawaii that carlos bulosan 1913 1956 memorialized in chapter 8 of his now canonical ethnic history america is in the heart bulosan s transformation as a canonical author epitomizes a whole history of filipino experience in the united states in the last quarter of the 20th century when bulosan landed in seattle in 1930 the global crisis of monopoly capitalism had already begun the depression of the thirties and forties served as the formative and catalyzing ground for his development into what michael denning calls a popular front militant activist in which the impulse for national liberation of the colony intertwined with the internationalist struggle against fascism in europe and japanese militarism in asia within this larger context one has to situate bulosan and his compariot s traumatized predicament as they confronted the nativist openly white supremacist racism of california and the west coast in those two decades of the depression bulosan s narrative was conceived in the middle of world war ii in the anguish over the fate of his family in occupied philippines it was designed to celebrate the america of his friends and ethnic kin as a bastion of democratic liberties against european and japanese fascism but to do that he had to recount the hardships pain and suffering his community endured together with workers of other nationalities he had to sum up what he learned the gap between ideas and actualities critics have long been puzzled by bulosan s authorial double consciousness the contradictions found in bulosan s texts can be clarified as symptoms of the way the interpellated subject grappled with both the americanized psyche educated by the civilizing mission in the colony and the politicized or pedagogical subject as part of the tremendous union mobilization that swept the workers organizations in which he was deeply involved these contradictions can be indexed by the last chapter of his book which ironically or naively concludes a narrative of disillusionment fear escape from mob violence and desperate struggle for physical survival everyday after corregidor fell to the japanese many filipinos joined the us army saying goodbye to his brothers in california who had enlisted in the military bulosan ends america is in the heart with a farewell to the filipino workers in california as he caught a bus to portland oregon then i heard bells ringing from the hills like the bells that had tolled in the church tower when i had left binalonan his birthplace in the philippines near tayug the site of the peasant uprising alluded to earlier i glanced out of the window again to look at the broad land i had dreamed so much about only to discover with astonishment that the american earth was like a huge heart unfolding warmly to receive me i felt it spreading throuogh my being warming me with its glowing reality it came to me that no man no one at allo could destroy my faith in america again it was something that had grown out of my defeats and successes something shaped by my struggles for a place in this vast land digging my hands into the rich soil here and there catching a freight to the north and to the south seeking free meals in dingy gambling houses reading a book that opened up worlds of heroic thoughts it was something that grew out of the sacrifices and loneliness of my friends of my brothers in america and my family in the philippines something that grew out of our desire to know america and to become a part of her great tradition and to contriburte something toward her final fulfillment i knew that no man could destroy my faither in america that had sprung from all our hopes and aspirations ever 1973 326 327 in his personal letters from 1937 to 1941 bulosan confessed that the terrible truth in america shatters the filipinos dream of fraternity induced by over thirty years of colonial indoctrination on the eve of pearl harbor and the japanese conquest of the philippines he wrote to an american woman friend love would only make it the harder for little guys like us to bear the unbearable terrors of life yes i feel like a criminal running away from a crime i did not commit and the crime is that i am a filipino in america bulosan 1995 173 cultural studies cholar michael denning argues that the rhetorical excess is a sign of the narrator s desperate attempt to transcend a united states of violence a world of brutaity and despair 1997 274 which also infected his family and working comrades such rhetoric was an attempt to heal or erase the evidence of history and class politics on violated uprooted and transplanted bodies hemeneutics of stigmata one incident that summed up the emergency plight of filipinos in the thirties is the watsonville race riot a culmination of vigilante attacks on filipinos beginning in yakima valley in 1928 throughout the west coast and up to florida in 1932 during four nights of rioting in january 1930 about 250 men attacked 46 terror stricken filipinos killing one of them fermin tobera one historian summarized the incidents thus at the inquest over the body of fermin tobera it was decided that the person who had fired the short was unknown when the body of fermin tobera arrived in manila thousands of filipinos took part in orderly demonstrations tober s body lay in state for two days tober was declared a national hero and for a time at least occupied a pedestal along with jose rizal the national hero of the philippines a member of the philippine legislature was quoted as having said at the burial services that the bullet which killed tober was not aimed at him particularly its principal target was the heart of our race bogardus 1976 56 57 pablo manlapit the veteran labor leader organized a march of thoousands in los angeles protesting the murder concerning the manila luneta necrological service for tobera dubbed as national humiliation day historian paul kramer remarked that it vividly illustrated the mutual constitution of u s colonialism and filipino nationalism across transpacific space 2006 428 by mutual constitution kramer means that the nativist pogrom disproved the viability of inclusionary racism finally giving independence to the u s from its colony kramer believes that economic protectionism by corporate power and racist nativism allowed american racial insularity the means of granting formal independence to filipinos and so contrary to the old fashioned history books filipinos did participate in shaping their destiny this is now the fashionable postmodernist theory which purports to grant agency to the poor colonized subalterns even though the effective players in this drama remain the corporate political functionaries officials and nativist white racial supremacists we are supposed to enjoy the illusion that the dispersed masses of filipino peasants and workers exercised equal power and resources as the hegemonic bloc of wealthy landlords businessmen and bureaucrats in that ideal world everyone is a free and equal moral person just like everyone else manlapit pedro calosa philip vera cruz and others recuperated their bodies by mourning and prefiguration recalling bulosan s advice to his relatives never forget your people your country wherever you go your greatness lies in them do not misuse your gift apply it toward safeguarding our greatest heritage the grandeur of ou history sacrificing itself for the good of the whole community like rizal who sacrificed his llife and happiness for the people bulosan 1995 180 charting escape routes the irony of this tendentious revisionism and the ascription of agency to individual performative bodies of the colonized subalterns seem to be the latest twist in revising cold war reductionisms the intention is certainly commendable one reviewer of the current scholarship insists that the colonized possessed individual agency equal to the colonizers by performing one s own body which allows individuals the space to oppose or perpetuate the imperial imaginary allen 2014 221 pursuing this methodological individualism in contrast to the allegedly simplistic formulas of an economistic marxism or the traditional structural functionalist analysis dealing with anti imperialist ideologues the new postmodernizing scholars are devoted to exploring the liberatory possibilities involved in the performance of one s own body or of one s own gender or race following this logic tobera and contemplacion could have done more with their bodies beyond the confines of the police record or the autopsy report they need a conceptualist artist like kenneth goldsmith perhaps to release the performative libidinal impulses hibernating in the bodies of little brown brothers and sisters working in the asparagus fields of california and pineapple plantations of hawaii in bulosan s time in light of the recent controversy over goldsmith s recital of the body of michael brown one wonders if anyone attempted such a feat of artistic transfiguration of course conceptual poetics aesthetics was unheard of in the thirties but a clearly analogous situation is that of the national trauma crisis at the execution in singapore of flor contemplacion one of the ten million ofws domestic workers sent abroad as a national policy of labor export implemented by the marcos dictatorship to relieve unemployment and earn foreign currency after being detained tortured and tried for four years contemplacion was hanged and her body brought for burial in her hometown an unprecedented spectacle of national mourning with thousands of filipinos lining the streeds awed a worldwide audience thousands attended her funeral procession outraged by both the singaporean government s straightjacket system and the philippine politicians neglect of the brutal treatment of numerous ofws for years this time the anger and grief released transpired in a setting more unsettled than the colonial milieu of tobera s time it is more than likely that contemplacion s case will be repeated as it has been with many executions in the middle east and one pending in indonesia today over 10 million ofws are scattered around the planet 5 000 8 000 contractual workers leave everyday remitting 26 to 28 billion a year enough to pay the country s foreign debt and keep the economy floating right now there are about 7 000 filipinos in prisons around the world 80 in death row nine ofws have been executed so far under aquino s tenure the biggest number so far within less than six years the bodies of tobera and contemplacion seem harbingers of what s to come turning in their graves with the internment of a double or postcolonial mimicry over a hundred years since mark twain penned his savage satire on the business of extending the blessings of civilization to our brother who sits in darkness vargas as cosmopolitan trope which brings me finally to the body of jose antonio vargas the 2008 pulitzer prize winning journalist and self declared undocumented immigrant vargas is still very much alive but his figure serves as an exemplary symbolic icon in the long genealogy of bulosan s characters traversing the american heartland throughout the turbulent twentieth century he embodies the inscription of america in the heart that bulosan dreamed about a belief enshrined in the statue of liberty and defended by the editorial board of the new york times opposing the current nativist xenophobic trend immigrants are america s rocket fuel powering our nation s unsurpassed economic and cultural achievements 2025 7 brought to the us illegally when he was 12 years old vargas was sitting in darkness as it were until at age 16 he tried to apply for a driver s permit and was told that his documents were fake in a 2012 time issue and before that in a june 2011 essay in the new york times magazine vargas and other undocumented folks came out of the shadows in order to promote dialogue about the system and advocate for the dream act which would provide children in similar circumstances with a path to citizenship in that same year obama halted deportation of undocumented immigrants age 30 and under eligible for the dream act but vargas who just turned 31 did not quallify and remained in limbo vargas claims that the immigration system is broken preventing many deserving candidates who identity themselves as american from residing in the country legally vargas campaign define american is intended to document the lives of an estimated 11 5 million people without a legal claim to exist in the country constantini 2012 vargas declared i define american as someone who works really hard someone who is proud to be in this country and wants to contribute to it i m independent i pay taxes i m self sufficient i m an american i just don t have the right papers i take full responsibility for my actions and i m sorry for the laws that i have broken wikipedia 2010 vargas counts among the three million dreamers or daca deferred action for childhood arrivals now subject to mass deportation by trump s masked hooded ice agents since 2011 vargas has been no longer just a filipino but an anchored not floating signifier for all undocumented he rejects the label illegal immigrants as his 2013 autobiographical film documented attests on july 15 2014 vargas was arrested by immigration authorities while trying to leave the border town of mcallen texas where he attended a vigil organized by united we dream at a center for recently released central american immigrants counter intuitively vargas arrest was due to an oversight or felicitous negligence in order to leave the rio grande valley vargas had to cross through a u s customs and border protection checkpoint he went through airport security with his philippine passport and a copy of the us constitutition a trope for the double consciousness the ambivalence of du bois body torn between the two domains of citizenship and alienation he was cleared by the transportation security administration but a border agent took his passport reviewed his documents asked him some questions placed him in handcuffs and escorted him to the mcallen border patrol station for further questioning we learn that he was released later that day due to the fact that he had no history of criminal activity lo and behold being an undocumented alien is no longer a crime concernin...