Modesto and Linda Ardell Tuzon at the Watsonville Veterans Hall

Modesto Tuzon and Linda Ardell Tuzon before Filipino community event at Watsonville Veterans' Hall.

Rita Tuzon

1978

Modesto Orlando Tuzon and Rita Tuzon

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For more information on mixed-race relations in the Filipino community:

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. Little Manila Is in the Heart : The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. Durham: Duke University Press (2013).

Roces, Mina. “‘These Guys Came Out Looking Like Movie Actors’: Filipino Dress and Consumer Practices in the United States, 1920s–1930s.” Pacific Historical Review 85, no. 4 (2016): 532–76.

Rudy P. Guevarra. Becoming Mexipino : Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press (2012).

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