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Book SynopsisExplores the complex relationship between Filipinos and the US by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American. This book reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of US overseas expansion.
Trade ReviewThe Third Asiatic Invasion is a majorcontribution toward understanding the unstable status of Filipinos inAmerica during this period, and it sheds light on the similarities anddifferences between the earlier period of American empire and todaysglobalization. * Journal of World History *
Across the diverse range of events and source materials of Rick Baldozs insightful, well-researched, and richly detailed sociological history of Filipino America that spans the formal colonial era between the United States and the Philippines, a telling motif emerges: test cases in anti-miscegenation law. * International Migration Review *
This book on the political economy and politics of Filipino immigration to the United States is an excellent study of the paradoxes and contradictions of racialized citizenship. * American Sociological Association *
The Third Asiatic Invasion is a major contribution toward understanding the unstable status of Filipinos in America during this period, and it sheds light on the similarities and differences between the earlier period of American empire and today's globalization. * Journal of World History *
Baldoz has made a difficult period in the Filipino American saga understandable. -- M.P. Onorato * Choice *
A scrupulously researched and compellingly argued work of historical sociology. Baldoz has an eye for the telling details that help to illuminate larger patterns of American empire, racial formation, and the politics of immigration. This elegant book makes a quantum leap by integrating Filipino and Filipino American scholarship and will surely become a classic in racial and ethnic studies. -- Evelyn Nakano Glenn,author of Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
Rigorously argued and deeply documented, The Third Asiatic Invasion is an urgent and necessary book on how race and empire played out in the Filipino experience in America. Baldoz redefines how we should study race, moving beyond the banal assertion of race as a social construction to explain the continuous process of race and boundary making and remaking. Bravo! -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,author of Racism Without Racists
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Racial Vectors of Empire: Classification and Competing Master Narratives in the Colonial Philippines Transpacific Traffic: Migration, Labor, and Settlement "It Is the Fight of This Nation against the Filipinos": Redrawing Boundaries of Race and Nation "Get Rid of All Filipinos or We'll Burn This Town Down": Racial Revanchism and the Contested Color Line in the Interwar West "To Guard the Doors of My People": Exclusion, Independence, and Repatriation "Another Mirage of Democracy": War, Nationality, and Asymmetrical Allegiance Epilogue Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author
