The Third Asiatic Invasion: Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946 (Nation of Nations)
By Rick Baldoz.
Description
Winner of the 2012-2013 Asian/Pacific American Librarian's Association Book Award Winner of the 2013 American Sociological Association's Asia and Asian America Section Distinguished Book Award 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 n...
ISBN(s)
0814791093, 9780814791097
