THE FILIPINO HISTORY AMERICA FORGOT: Human Exhibitions, Empire & the Complicated Truth.
Filipino people were once brought to the United States and displayed before paying American audiences.
When I first came across that claim, I didn’t believe the story could be as straightforward as social media made it sound.
So I investigated it.
What I found was not just one disturbing exhibition—but an entire chapter of Filipino-American history many Americans were never taught.
In 1904, more than a thousand Filipinos were brought to the St. Louis World’s Fair, where a 47-acre “Philippine Reservation” presented Filipino peoples and cultures to American spectators only a few years after the…
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