Dollar a Day, 10 Cents a Dance

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Dollar a Day, 10 Cents a Dance (1984)

Directed by Mark Schwartz, Geoffrey Dunn

Documentary · 29m

Enticed by the promise of jobs and fair wages, 100,000 Filipinos immigrated to the U.S. between 1924 and 1935 to toil on California’s farmlands. Because of the exclusion of Filipina women and U.S. anti-miscegenation laws, they survived the loneliness of racial discrimination by creating close-knit bachelor societies where cockfights, poker games and dance halls served as their entertainment, and by entering into common law marriages.

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Crew

Director
Mark Schwartz, Geoffrey Dunn

Details

Release date
1984-11-24
Runtime
29m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN