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COPYRIGHT 2001 Transaction Publishers, Inc.
By Barbara Posadas. The New Americans Series. Series Editor, Ronald H. Bayor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. xvi + 190 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, glossary, notes, and index. $39.95.
The people known to the Americans as the Filipinos had long relations with the United States due to their colonial status that lasted from 1898 to 1946. In 1898 the United States acquired the insular territory known as the Philippine archipelago through the Treaty of Paris, concluded between the United States and Spain. Due to the special relationship that offered the Filipinos the legal status of being America's nationals, they were able to emigrate to the United States, even when other peoples from Asia were prohibited from coming to America by virtue of the passage of the 1924 immigration law. This special legal status came to an end when Congress passed...
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