{"title":"Robert Chao Romero","description":"Robert Chao Romero is an assistant professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"the-chinese-in-mexico-1882-1940-paperback","title":"The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. \u003ci\u003eThe Chinese in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Robert Romero argues that Chinese immigrants turned to Mexico as a new land of economic opportunity after the passage of the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. As a consequence of this legislation, Romero claims, Chinese immigrants journeyed to Mexico in order to gain illicit entry into the United States and in search of employment opportunities within Mexico's developing economy. Romero details the development, after 1882, of the \"Chinese transnational commercial orbit,\" a network encompassing China, Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, shaped and traveled by entrepreneurial Chinese pursuing commercial opportunities in human smuggling, labor contracting, wholesale merchandising, and small-scale trade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Romero's study is based on a wide array of Mexican and U.S. archival sources. It draws from such quantitative and qualitative sources as oral histories, census records, consular reports, INS interviews, and legal documents. Two sources, used for the first time in this kind of study, provide a comprehensive sociological and historical window into the lives of Chinese immigrants in Mexico during these years: the Chinese Exclusion Act case files of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the 1930 Mexican municipal census manuscripts. From these documents, Romero crafts a vividly personal and compelling story of individual lives caught in an extensive network of early transnationalism.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. \"The Chinese in Mexico\" provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366217744607,"sku":"9780816514601","price":57.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4pLmizt33i9780816514601.webp?v=1789088048"},{"product_id":"brown-church-five-centuries-of-latina-o-social-justice-theology-and-identity-paperback","title":"Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina\/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e INDIES Book of the Year Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor five hundred years, Latina\/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition to Spanish colonialism, Latin American dictatorships, US imperialism in Central America, the oppression of farmworkers, or the current exploitation of undocumented immigrants. Christianity has played a significant role in that movement at every stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Chao Romero, the son of a Mexican father and a Chinese immigrant mother, exploresthe history and theology of what he terms the \"Brown Church.\" Romero considers how this movement has responded to these and other injustices throughout its history by appealing to the belief that God's vision for redemption includes not only heavenlypromises but also the transformation of every aspect of our lives and the world. Walking through this history of activism and faith, readers will discover that Latina\/o Christians have a heart after God's own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367712293087,"sku":"9780830852857","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SzGfBY8Fqb9780830852857.webp?v=1789113358"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-chao-romero.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}