America is in the Heart: A Personal History.

Abstract

It was a crime to be a Filipino in California...The public streets were not free to my people: we were stopped each time these vigilant patrolmen saw us driving a car. We were suspect each time we were seen with a white woman. And perhaps it was this narrowing of our life into an island, into a filthy segment of American society that had driven Filipinos...inward, hating everyone and despising all positive urgencies toward freedom.