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Interracial Marriages and Transnational Families: Chicago's Filipinos
in the Aftermath of World War II
ROLAND L. GUYOTTE AND BARBARA M. POSADAS
ON OCTOBER 22, 1946, 54-year-old,
Philippine-born Cesario Agudo Buensuceso filed a petition for naturalization
and signed an "Oath of Allegiance" pledging to "support and defend the
Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies,
foreign and domestic." Unlike most other Filipinos seeking U.S. citizenship
in the aftermath of World War Two, Buensuceso had previously sought naturalization.
Twenty-two years earlier, on May 2, 1924, Buensuceso's first petition
for naturalization had been denied because, as a Filipino, Buensuceso
was found to be ineligible by reason of race. Buensuceso had made his
1924 petition almost five years after arriving in the United States and
settling in Chicago in July 1919.
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