People: Adventurer-Actor

Graphic was an English-speaking illustrated magazine, owned by Ramon Roces and edited by A. C. Fabian. It included sections targeted at both men and women, which made it suitable for a broad public. It had several social sections through the years, which gave contemporary readers an image of Filipino society, such as “Who is Who In the Philippines” or “People”, which focused on prominent local figures from across the archipelago.  On January 4, 1934, “People” published a small piece about Antonio Bollozos, a veteran of the Philippine National Guard (PNG). This document offers us a rare testimony of the impact of the conflict on the lives of common Filipinos. Some veterans, like Bollozos, made the most out of the demobilization to look for a better life outside of the Philippines. Even though Bollozos made his America’s quest to “save the world for democracy” by joining the US navy and later prosecuting rum­ runners on the coast of Maine (probably as a U.S. Coast Guard), he was still racialized as a “brown boy”. Bollozos would end up having a career as a racialized performer, working as a “Chinese extra” in a Hollywood studio and changing his name to Tony Lee.

Fuente

"People: Adventurer-Actor", Graphic, vol IX, num. 51, January 4, 1934, p. 23. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Baldoz, Rick. 2011. The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946. New York, USA: New York University Press.
Lee Esther Kim. 2022. Made-Up Asians: Yellowface during the Exclusion Era. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Autoría

Rafael A. Bautista

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Fecha

1934-01-04

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Idioma

English

Materia

Graphic

Philippine National Guard

Philippine veterans

World War I