Talk: Anthony C. Ocampo presents "The 'Latinos' of Asia: How Filipinos Break the Rules of Race"

Event Date: 
Thursday, May 15, 2014 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Event Location: 
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall

Join us in the CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall, when we welcome Anthony C. Ocampo, assistant professor of sociology at Cal Poly Pomona.

In large metropolitan areas in California, Latinos and Asians collectively constitute the majority, a demographic shift that is reshaping the way children of immigrants are racially incorporated into American society. To date, race scholars treat Latinos and Asians as two distinct panethnic categories. This lecture examines how Filipino Americans, the largest Asian group in the state, disrupt this conventional divide and negotiate their racial identity within an emerging Latino-Asian racial spectrum, and how the cultural residuals of Spanish and U.S. colonialism affect how Filipinos racially position themselves vis-à-vis Latinos and Asians, the two fastest growing panethnic groups in the country. These findings have implications for better understanding how the racialization process is evolving as the United States moves beyond a black-white racial paradigm.

A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture.

This event is FREE; no RSVP required.

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Research Center, UCLA Asian American Studies Department, UCLA Department of Sociology, UCLA Program on International Migration, UCLA Department of Sociology Race/Ethnicity Working Group, UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. 

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