Tag: Chinese-Mexicans

  • Uncovering the forgotten history of anti-Chinese propaganda and violence documented in the years around the revolution, the book reads like a dossier of state secrets.

  • The politics of racial difference amid the tumult of modern Mexican history

  • But there’s something about this place that sets it apart in the borderlands. You might notice it first in the Chinese restaurants dotting the streets, in the elaborate pagoda that sits at the border with Calexico, or in the doorways downtown with subtle, sometimes faded, Chinese lettering.

  • Chinese in Latin America H-Soz-u-Kult Außereuropäische Geschichte 2013-12-13 Dorothea A. L. Martin, Professor of History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Delgado, Grace: Making the Chinese Mexican. Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2012. ISBN 978-0-8047-7814-5; 304 S.; € 49,93. Look Lai, Walton; Chee-Beng, Tan (Hrsg.): The Chinese…

  • Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico UCLA Today Faculty and Staff News 2010-12-06 Letisia Marquez Growing up in a predominantly white Los Angeles County suburb, Robert Chao Romero, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, learned to hide his Chinese background.   The son of a Chinese…

  • The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. [González Review] H-Net Reviews February, 2012 Fredy González Yale University Robert Chao Romero. The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. xii + 254 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-2772-4. Moving across the Transnational Commercial Orbit Robert Chao Romero’s The Chinese in Mexico, the first English-language monograph on the subject,…

  • Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico Silicon Valley Mercury News 2012-11-24 Olga R. Rodriguez, Mexican Correspondent Associated Press MEXICO CITY—Juan Chiu Trujillo was 5 years old when he left his native Mexico for a visit to his father’s hometown in southern China. He was 35 when he returned. As Chiu vacationed with his parents, brother and…