Identity Politics

Op Docs: Asian-Americans Confront Stereotypes About Their Community

Op Docs: Asian-Americans Confront Stereotypes About Their Community

In this installment of New York Times' “Conversations on Race” series for Op-Docs, Asian-Americans talk about how stereotypes unfairly confine them — particularly the one that brands them a “model minority.” 

BOOK REVIEW Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race by Anthony Ocampo

BOOK REVIEW Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race by Anthony Ocampo

Questions of identity are integral to young Filipino-Americans struggling to assert and find their voice in the 21st century. Books like Anthony Ocampo’s The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race and E.J.R. David’s Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino-American Postcolonial Psychology demonstrate a profound shift to centralize the narrative around the Filipino-American experience as we face the population growth of our community in the U.S.