Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what ‘color’ you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian. But the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines means that they share many cultural characteristics with Latinos, such as last names, religion, and language. Thus, Filipinos’ ‘color’—t...
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1. The Puzzling Case of Filipino Americans
2. Colonial Legacies
3. Suburban Ethnicity
4. The Latinos of Asia
5. Getting Schooled on Race
6. ‘Filipinos Are...
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Anthony Christian Ocampo is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the S...