Dollar a Day 10 Cents a Dance (1984)

Enticed by the promise of jobs and fair wages 100000 Filipinos immigrated to the US between 1924 and 1935 to toil on Californias farmlands Because of the exclusion of Filipina women and US antimiscegenation laws they survived the loneliness of racial discrimination by creating closeknit bachelor societies where cockfights poker games and dance halls served as their entertainment and by entering into common law marriages