The Third Asiatic Invasion : : Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946 / / Rick Baldoz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Baldoz, Rick,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Nation of Nations ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the footsteps of earlier Chinese and Japanese immigrants, the first and second “Asiatic invasions.” Perceived as alien because of their Asian ethnicity yet legally defined as American nationals granted more rights than other immigrants, Filipino American national identity was built upon the shifting sands of contradiction, ambiguity, and hostility.Rick Baldoz explores the complex relationship between Filipinos and the U.S. by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American divide: internationally through an examination of American imperial ascendancy and domestically through an exploration of the social formation of Filipino communities in the United States. He reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of U.S. overseas expansion. A unique portrait of the Filipino American experience, The Third Asiatic Invasion links the Filipino experience to that of Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Chinese and Native Americans, among others, revealing how the politics of exclusion played out over time against different population groups.Weaving together an impressive range of materials—including newspapers, government reports, legal documents and archival sources-into a seamless narrative, Baldoz illustrates how the quixotic status of Filipinos played a significant role in transforming the politics of race, immigration and nationality in the United States.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Racial Vectors of Empire -- 2. Transpacific Traffic -- 3. “It Is the Fight of This Nation against the Filipinos” -- 4. “Get Rid of All Filipinos or We’ll Burn This Town Down” -- 5. “To Guard the Doors of My People” -- 6. “Another Mirage of Democracy” -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author