Rick Baldoz – Empire and Migration in Filipino America
Rick Baldoz Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
The Smithsonian APA Program, APA Heritage Committee, and Latino Center hosted a brown bag lunch lecture featuring scholar Rick Baldoz to commemorate Filipino American History Month.
Click here to download the PDF flyer
Rick Baldoz explores the complex relationship between Filipinos and the United States 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 geo-political 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.
Rick Baldoz is a professor of sociology at Oberlin College. He is the author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America 1898-1946 (NYU Press) and co-author of The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology and Global Production (Temple University Press). His work has appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Du Bois Review, and American Studies. His current project focuses on Filipinos and Puerto Ricans who served in the United States armed forces during World Wars One and Two.
Discussion