{"id":27340,"date":"2013-01-07T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27340"},"modified":"2013-01-07T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T04:00:33","slug":"discovery-of-his-roots-leads-him-to-track-history-of-chinese-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27340","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucla.edu\/portal\/ut\/discovery-of-his-own-roots-leads-186506.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucla.edu\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA Today<\/a><br \/>\nFaculty and Staff News<br \/>\n2010-12-06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Letisia Marquez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growing up in a predominantly white Los Angeles County suburb, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chavez.ucla.edu\/people-faculty-and-staff\/core-faculty-1\/robert-chao-romero\/?searchterm=Robert Chao Romero\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Chao Romero<\/a>, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, learned to hide his Chinese background.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe son of a Chinese mother and Mexican father, Romero recalled starting the first grade in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hacienda_Heights,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Hacienda Heights<\/a> and a classmate telling him an anti-Chinese joke.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cIt was just a dumb kid\u2019s joke, but it sort of sent the message to me that being Chinese is bad,\u201d he added&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;One tidbit that had always intrigued Romero was that his parents knew a Chinese family who had lived in Mexico for many years. He decided to look into the history of Chinese Mexicans and discovered that although Spanish professors had written about the population, he could not find a book about Chinese Mexicans in English.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cThe more I explored the topic, the more I realized this is a rich history that\u2019s a forgotten history for the most part,\u201d Romero said. \u201cAnd I think a large part of the reason it\u2019s forgotten is because it\u2019s a dark chapter, unfortunately.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nYears later, Romero completed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=20018\" target=\"_blank\">The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940<\/a>,\u201d (University of Arizona, 2010) book which details the tragic history of Chinese immigrants in Mexico&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucla.edu\/portal\/ut\/discovery-of-his-own-roots-leads-186506.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0 The son of a Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,21,459,8,103,820,20],"tags":[12883,13292,1735,13293],"class_list":["post-27340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-religion","category-usa","tag-chinese-mexicans","tag-letisia-marquez","tag-robert-chao-romero","tag-ucla-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27340","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=27340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}