Excerpt from Atang: An Altar for Listening to the Beginning of the World

“Let it be remembered that most of these Filipinos are musicians, and that the character of their music is of the sentimental and appealing (to passions sort), and that the Filipinos dress flashily, spend their money lavishly on the girls … Chief Mann [of Toppenish, Wash.] said: ‘They are just as dangerous when allowed free social contact with women as that of the negro when given the same liberty’ … One of the prominent men [also] in Toppenish, with whom I talked yesterday, said: ‘If I had my way, I would declare an open season on all Filipinos and there would be no bag limit.’”
—C. O. Young, General Organizer, AFL (as entered in Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 71st Congress, 1929–31)

Collage by Patrick Rosal—scan of score notes that John Coltrane made for A Love Supreme and a picture of a band during the Philippine American War. The description from the second volume of Our Islands and Their People as Seen with Camera and Pencil (1899) says: “This band came from the interior, professing extraordinary friendship for the Americans. But they professed too much and thereby aroused the suspicions of authorities, who banished them from the camp. It was afterward learned that they had been sent by Aguinaldo as spies.”