| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3 | The History Cooperative

American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919–1941. By Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xviii + 302 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95, paper.)
Today Filipinos represent the second largest number of Asian Americans in the United States, but compared to the attention scholars have paid to Japanese and Chinese Americans, little has been written on Filipino Americans. Dorothy Fujita-Rony's recent study of Philippine Seattle between the world wars begins to fill this void.	1
American Workers, Colonial Power urges us to see the Filipino-American experience as part of a larger transpacific migration shaped by American colonialism and international capitalism. American colonial policy, Fujita-Rony contends, restructured the indigenous economy of the Philippines to benefit American capitalists. Market forces thus encouraged the movement of people, ideas, and commodities within the country as well as between the Philippines and the United States. Due to its favorable location and its developing economy, Seattle quickly emerged as a colonial metropole to the Philippines.	. . .

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