{"id":27336,"date":"2013-01-07T02:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27336"},"modified":"2013-04-19T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:02:59","slug":"chino-chicano-a-biblical-framework-for-diversity-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27336","title":{"rendered":"“Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity<\/a>
\n2013-01-03<\/p>\n

Robert Chao Romero<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Chicana\/o Studies and Asian American Studies
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a \u201cChino-Chicano.\u201d I was born in East Los Angeles<\/a> and raised in the small town of Hacienda Heights<\/a>. My dad is an immigrant from Chihuahua, Mexico<\/a> and my mom an immigrant from Hubei<\/a> in central China. The Romeros lost their family fortune during the Mexican Revolution<\/a> by siding with Pancho Villa<\/a>, and eventually immigrated to El Paso, Texas<\/a>. They moved to East Los Angeles in the 1950\u2019s and we\u2019ve been here in Southern California<\/a> ever since. My mom\u2019s family immigrated to Los Angeles from China via Hong Kong and Singapore in the 1950\u2019s. My maternal grandfather, Calvin Chao, was a famous pastor in China who launched the first Chinese branch of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship<\/a>. The Chaos fled their native land because my grandfather was on a communist \u201chit list.\u201d As an interesting side note, my Mom\u2019s family traces directly back to the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Growing up \u201cmixed,\u201d I had a lot of struggles with racial identity. I was very proud of my Mexican heritage, but at a young age got sent the message that being Chinese was a bad thing. On the first day of first grade a kid walked up to me, pretended to hold an imaginary refrigerator in his hands, and said, \u201cHere\u2019s a refrigerator, open it up. Here\u2019s a coke, drink it. Me Chinese, me play joke, me do pee-pee in your Coke<\/em>.\u201d Kids are so mean.\u00a0 I was so scarred by that event that I denied my Chinese heritage for the next 18 years.\u00a0<\/strong> Once I even remember telling a friend that my mom was our housekeeper because I was embarrassed that she came to pick me up from school…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I) Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-01-03 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana\/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles I\u2019m a \u201cChino-Chicano.\u201d I was born in East Los Angeles and raised in the small town of Hacienda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,21,125,8,103,820,394,20],"tags":[13291,9291,1735,9290],"class_list":["post-27336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-religion","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jesus-for-revolutionaries","tag-robert-c-romero","tag-robert-chao-romero","tag-robert-romero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}