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  • The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

    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.

  • The Forgotten Amerasians

    Unwanted in their mothers’ country and unwelcome in their fathers’ homeland, Filipino Amerasians are still in search of a home.

  • Illicit Labor: MacArthur’s Mistress and Imperial Intimacies

    Illicit Labor: MacArthur’s Mistress and Imperial Intimacies Radical History Review Volume 2015, Number 123 (October 2015) pages 87-114 DOI: 10.1215/01636545-3088168 Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Hawaii, Mānoa This essay examines a brief affair between General Douglas MacArthur and a mixed-race Filipina vaudeville actress named Isabel Rosario Cooper. It focuses on…

  • The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege

    The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege Ashgate May 2015 186 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-5307-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-5308-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-5309-9 Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Macquarie University, Australia Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines…

  • The fluidity of race

    This study is an examination of the American mestizos who lived in the Philippines from 1900 to 1955. No scholarly studies exist that analyze and historicize this group, but this is understandable, as the population of the American mestizos compared to the overall Filipino population is miniscule, never exceeding 20,000 individuals at any one time.

  • The Forgotten Amerasians

    The Forgotten Amerasians The New York Times 2013-05-27 Christopher M. Lapinig Yale University NEW HAVEN — THE Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill last week that would gradually make citizenship possible for as many as 11 million undocumented immigrants. The bill is widely described as sweeping in scope. In fact, it is not…

  • Hardships for Filipino mixed-race children

    Hardships for Filipino mixed-race children Al Jazeera 2013-02-26 Jamela Alindogan Thousands of mixed-race children grow up without their fathers in the Philippines. Most of them are of Korean or American descent. Many often end up living on the streets without any support. Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila.

  • Five times more ‘G.I. babies’ than previously thought

    Five times more ‘G.I. babies’ than previously thought The Phillipine Star Manila, Philippines 2012-12-17 Jarius Bondoc There are five times more American “G.I. babies” in the Philippines than previously thought — and they continue to multiply. This is according to a recent study by a visiting American social researcher and professor in Angeles City, Pampanga.…

  • The semantics of ‘mestizo’

    The semantics of ‘mestizo’ GMA News Online 2012-07-12 Amanda Lago “What’s your mix?” clothing brand Bayo asked Filipina women in its heavily-lampooned ad campaign from last month. The ad drew criticism for excluding 100-percent Filipinos, and glorifying the “50-precent Filipina” instead, thereby feeding the beauty industry’s obsession with so-called mestizas. But as it turns out,…

  • Instituto Cervantes holds forum on genetic diversity in the Philippines

    Instituto Cervantes holds forum on genetic diversity in the Philippines GMA News Online Quezon City, Philippines 2012-07-24 On Tuesday, July 24, Instituto Cervantes presents “Todos somos mestizos: A Topogenetic Atlas of the Philippines,” a forum on the genetic make-up of Filipinos all over the archipelago. The talk will be led by Filipino anthropologist Fernando Zialcita,…