Rick BaldozThe Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898–1946. (Nation of Newcomers: Immigrant History as American History.) New York: New York University Press. 2011. Pp. viii, 301. Cloth $79.00, paper $25.00

Following on the heels of Chinese and Japanese exclusion, Filipino immigration to the United States was often referred to by twentieth‐century American nativists as the “third Asiatic invasion.” Rick Baldoz's book explores the ramifications of Filipino immigration understood as a kind of ongoing war on white society. The U.S. invasion and occupation of the Philippines opened up the pathways for Filipino labor migration to Hawai‘i and the United States between 1906 and 1934. The increasing number of largely male migrants—at one point, estimated to be near 50,000 in the West Coast alone—was seen by nativist groups as a kind of invasion and colonization of the United States by its own colonial subjects. Filipino migrants were stunned and dismayed at the racial discrimination and harsh working conditions they were subjected to in the metropole. Baldoz traces the history of this other...