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Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance

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Producer(s)Geoffrey Dunn & Mark Schwartz
Director(s)Geoffrey Dunn & Mark Schwartz
Release Date1984
Runtime29 min min
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Film Description

Enticed by the promise of jobs and fair wages, 100,000 Filipinos immigrated to the US between 1924 and 1935 to toil on California's farmlands. Because of the exclusion of Filipina women's immigration and US anti-miscegenation laws, they survived the loneliness of racial discrimination by creating close-knit bachelor societies and entering into common law marriages, where cockfights, poker games and dance halls served as their entertainment.
AWARDS:
Red Ribbon, American Film Festival
First Place, Santa Cruz Video Festival

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Related IssuesEconomic Justice, Immigration, Racial Justice, Central America, Middle East, U.S./Foreign Relations