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I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a 'campo' boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. As...

His book is a sequel of sorts to Carlos Bulosan's "America Is in the Heart", with themes of heartbreaking struggle against racism and poverty and eventual triumph. Jamero describes his early life in a farm-labour camp in Livingston, California, and the path that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far beyond Livingston. A long-time community activist and civic leader, Jamero describes decades of toil and progress before the Fi...