Carlos Sampayan Bulosan was a Filipino American author, poet, and activist born in 1913 in the Philippines. He immigrated to the United States in 1930 where he faced racism and worked low-paying jobs. Bulosan is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "America is in the Heart" which portrayed the difficult living and working conditions faced by Filipino migrant workers in America and served as his personal account of struggling against racism. Though he died of tuberculosis in 1956 at age 42, Bulosan left behind a significant body of works documenting the Filipino immigrant experience.

1. Group 8 Reporting Presentation
21st Century Literature From The Philippines And The World

2. Carlos Sampayan Bulosan
• Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (Allos)
• 24 November 1913, Binalonan
Pangasinan
• 11 September 1956,
Seattle,Washington, United States
Parents:Simeon Bulosan and
Martha Sampayan
• Filipino novelist,poet and activist
who migrated to Americaon July 1,
1930
• Bulosan’s works describe the
experience of growing up poor in a
rural area of the Philippines

3. •Carlos Sampayan Bulosan was an English-
language Filipino novelist and poet who
immigrated to America on July 1, 1930.He never
returned to the Philippines and he spent most of
his life in the United States.

4. • Carlos Sampayan Bulosan was a Filipino American
author, poet, and activist. A chronicler of the Filipino
American experience during the 1930s early 1950s, he
is best remembered for his semi-fictional, semi-
autobiographical novel America Is In the Heart (1946)
a staple in American Ethnic Studies and Asian
American Studies classes.

5. He arrived in Seattle, Washington where he was
confronted with racism and was forced to work low
paying jobs. He worked as a farmworker, harvesting
grapes and asparagus, while also working other
forms of hard labor in the fields of California. He
also worked as a dishwasher in the famous
Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo.

6. •Though Bulosan was only 42 years old when he
died of tuberculosis-complicated pneumonia in
Seattle in 1956, he left behind a large body of
poems, novels, short stories, plays, and
correspondence on a range of related topics.

7. •He is best known for his novel, “America Is
in the Heart,” published in 1946. The novel
not only portrayed the appalling living and
working conditions that Filipino migrant
workers endured, but also served as a
personal account of one man’s struggle
against racism in America.

8. Carlos Sampayan Bulosan
Works;

9. • Letter from America (The Press of James A. Decker, 1942)[8]
• America Is in the Heart (1946)
• The Laughter of My Father (1944)
• The Cry and the Dedication (1995)
• My Father’s Tragedy
• The Romance of Magno Rubio
• If You Want To Know What We Are
• My Father goes to Court

10. Carlos Bulosan Famous Work
• America is in the Heart
sometimes subtitled A Personal
History, is a 1946 semi-
autobiographical novel written
by Filipino American immigrant
poet, fiction writer, short story
teller, and activist Carlos
Bulosan. It is regarded as a
“social classic” that reflects the
experiences of Filipino
immigrants searching for a
better life.

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14. Quiz time!
1.He is a novelist, Essayist, Labor Union Organizer who was
born in Binalonan Pangasinan.
2.At what age did Carlos go to America?
3.What was Carlos’ illness that caused his death?
4-7.What did he leave behind before he died?
8-10.For what reason did he write American is in the Heart?