Presenting powerful testimonials by Filipinos from two Los Angeles communities and centering dynamics in schools and neighborhoods, this must-read book complicates understandings of race, identity, and Los Angeles.
Ocampo examines racial identities among Filipino Americans not just in relation to whites, but in relation to other minorities. Through candid and eloquent responses from Filipino American young adults, and engaging links to scholarly discussions, Ocampo tracks the fluidity of race and argues that place matters in how people come to think about themselves.
This book convincingly demonstrates that race is not a fixed characteristic of individuals and groups. Anthony Ocampo's work will capture the imagination of students of immigration, race, and ethnicity alike. Brimming with unexpected findings and insightful explanations, The Latinos of Asia underscores the intrinsic instability and enduring power of race.
Through rich interviews and accessible prose, Ocampo explains how Filipino Americans straddle Latino and Asian racial categories, and what that straddling says about race in the United States today. This is the definitive account of the contemporary Filipino American experience. His highly accessible narrative carries the reader through different social and institutional contexts that draw Filipinos back and forth over panethnic lines, and challenge our notion of what panethnicity means in America.
Americans watch all this Asian regional territorial tension with a wary eye. The United States has a long-standing security alliance with Japan, a new military pact with the Philippines, a budding economic relationship with Vietnam and a long-term interest in improving strategic ties with India. A year-and-a-half into his second term, he remains popular with his own people and with many other publics in Asia.
An identical proportion of his own people held such sentiment in , when Abe was last in office, according to a Pew Research survey at the time. Abe is also quite well respected in a number of other Asian countries, with half or more in five of 10 trusting him in world affairs. The Chinese and South Koreans hold a particularly negative opinion of the Japanese leader.
This has particularly incensed governments in both Beijing and Seoul. It apparently also does not sit well with their citizens. The Japanese prime minister is largely unknown in much of South Asia. It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values. But that doesn't necessarily change the way I feel overnight.
This is a life of coming to terms with that. I think that's why I've actually wished for so long to appear more Filipino, whatever that means. We have as biracial women, especially Asian American women, a lot of identity issues and then you get a lot of these dismissive comments, 'You don't look Asian.
They're like, 'Oh, I like Asian girls,' and you're like, 'You're disgusting. MH: I wish I could be someone who doesn't feel constantly worried about the amount of times I bring up that I'm Filipino because I don't want to be a white person who's constantly talking about it, but it's a huge part of the way I grew up. I relate more to the upbringings of people of color and immigrants than I do to my white friends. I'm like, 'Wait your parents let you do that?
We're a community made up of people who consider themselves in the gray area. MH: I'm trying to work on telling myself I am allowed to have an opinion, I'm allowed to feel things. I want to tell people the way I look doesn't define me. You weren't in my house growing up.
Just because it's hard for you to wrap your mind around when you look at me, doesn't mean I can't be an Asian woman. It's the hurt of knowing that this has happened to people who resemble my family, then there's guilt reinforced by people who don't see me as having a connection to that group of people. It's certainly not harder in any way than the people grappling with just pure fear and anger. But it is multilayered. MM: I want people to know biracial Asians are still Asian. To all those people who've said, 'Oh, you're only half, you're not really Asian, that's basically white,' this would be my big middle finger to them.
Are Filipinos Asians or Pacific Islanders? Officially, needless to say, Filipinos are classified as Asians therefore the Philippines included in Southeast Asia. But explaining Filipinos as Pacific Islanders is not always incorrect either. In reality, for a time that is long Filipinos had been referred to as Pacific Islanders. They may well happen talking about the geographic distance regarding the nation from mainland Asia.
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