Lust Among the Ruins

Lust Among the Ruins

The Alaskero’s sex life in the salmon canneries (from memoir to fiction).

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Pieces of the (Midnight) Sun: Sketches of An Alaskero

Pieces of the (Midnight) Sun: Sketches of An Alaskero

A writer recalls the doldrum and drama in Alaska’s salmon canneries of decades past.

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The Wards Cove Case: Separate and Unequal

The Wards Cove Case: Separate and Unequal

In which the Wards Cove Packing Company in Alaska managed to exclude the 2,000 Filipino, Asian American and Native Alaskan cannery workers from the 1991 Civil Rights Act.

    

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The Travails of Early Filipinos In America

The Travails of Early Filipinos In America

Why the sign said “Positively No Filipinos Allowed”

    

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