dr anthony ocampo

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Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders

Education

Globalization

Human Rights

Immigration

Leadership

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer

Multiculturalism

Pride Reimagined

Programs for High School Students

Racism/Racial Justice

Youth/Student Activism

Anthony Ocampo PhD is a scholar and writer who focuses on issues of immigration, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality. He is the writer ofThe Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Pause the Rules of Race, recently featured on NPR Morn Edition. His book examines the racial lives of Filipino Americans, who trace their roots to a lodge in Asia, but likewise share many cultural characteristics with Latinos. The Latinos of Asia raises the puzzle: Are Filipinos in the United States "becoming" Asian American or Latino? Ocampo draws on the voices of Filipino Americans to demonstrate how demographic shifts in the U.S. are changing the way immigrants and children understand race. His book besides provides a foreshadowing of what race relations in America will wait similar as our society moves further away from the black-white racial paradigm.

Dr. Ocampo's nigh recent book, To Be Brown and Gay in L.A. (September 2022), chronicles the way gay men of color from immigrant families negotiate race, gender, and sexuality within their families, neighborhoods, schools, and mainstream LGBT spaces. This book builds on his scholarly enquiry on indigenous and sexual minorities, which has been published in some of the leading journals in the field, such as Ethnic and Racial Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Race, Ethnicity, and Educational activity; Latino Studies; and Journal of Asian American Studies.

Dr. Ocampo has also co-edited two major collections in race and ethnic studies: Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader and Asian American Gild: An Encyclopedia. Beyond his scholarly writings, he has likewise been featured as a commentator for local and national news outlets, including CNN, 60 Minutes, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Dr. Ocampo also has a regular segment "All Things Fil-Am with Dr. O" on Kababayan Today, a daily talk show for and about Filipino Americans.

Dr. Ocampo is a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Young man at the School of Public Policy at UC Riverside and Banana Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. He has served as a dedicated mentor to first-generation students of color through the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Plan, and his erstwhile advisees have earned admission to prestigious graduate programs at Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, and the University of California. At Cal Poly Pomona, he has been a recipient of the Provost Teacher-Scholar Award and an Outstanding Teaching Accolade.

A native Los Angeleno, Dr. Ocampo is a graduate of Stanford University (BA '03, MA '04) and the Academy of California, Los Angeles (MA '06, PhD '11).

Testimonials

"It was such a privilege to have Dr. Ocampo speak on our campus. Our students were so engaged and captivated by his research and I believe they were truly made aware of the inequalities that are occurring in our nation today. He is a wonderful communicator and an achieved expert in his field. As such a welcoming and outgoing person, his talk and come across-and-greet was well-received by everyone in attendance."
— Victoria Eaton, Graduate Assistant LGBTQIA+ Resource Office, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

"During his talk, Dr. Ocampo not only kept the audience fascinated - and at the right time, wonderfully amused - he really gave united states something to stash away in our heads for later reflection and application. During his presentation, he had everybody engaged, every bit evidenced past the notetaking during his talk.... Many references have been made to his presentation; he obviously widened the perspective of all the attendees. I am convinced that this was the best workshop at NCORE and much of the credit goes to him."
- Elias Villegas, Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR

"Anthony Ocampo is an energetic and dynamic speaker. He finer integrates narratives from interviews with historical legacies of colonialism and recent data to tell a story near Filipino Americans and their identity. His talks entreatment to a wide diversity of audition members - from older professors to immature undergraduate students."
- Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania

What people are proverb about Anthony Ocampo'due south latest book, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

"This is a groundbreaking book about i of the least understood groups of people: Filipinos. Equally a people, we're a lot American, we're definitely Asian, and we're undeniably Latino. The Latinos of Asia is essential reading not only for the Filipino diaspora, simply for anyone who cares about the mysteries of racial identity."
— Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founder of Define American and #EmergingUS

"Anthony Ocampo shows that agreement race in today's America means understanding a grouping that toes dissimilar racial lines: Filipino Americans. Through rich interviews and attainable prose, Ocampo explains how Filipino Americans straddle Latino and Asian racial categories, and what that straddling says about race in the United States today. This is the definitive account of the contemporary Filipino American experience."
— Tomás R. Jiménez, Stanford Academy; writer of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans Clearing, and Identity

"Analyzing Filipino American experiences of 'looking Asian but having a Castilian terminal name' or 'looking Mexican but identifying as Asian,' Ocampo shows how the children of Filipino immigrants constantly claiming the prevailing racial mapping rules in America. The Latinos of Asia is groundbreaking, offering an ingenious perspective on racial dynamics and formation."
— Min Zhou, Tan Distraction Sye Chair Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological Academy, and co-Author of The Asian American Achievement Paradox

"The Latinos of Asia presents an innovative analysis of Filipinos as an 'in-between' people straddling the stigmatized immigrant groups from Latin America and model minority newcomer populations from Asia. This volume convincingly demonstrates that race is not a stock-still characteristic of individuals and groups. Anthony Ocampo'south work will capture the imagination of students of immigration, race, and ethnicity alike."
— Rubén Hernández-León, Acquaintance Professor of Sociology and Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies

"The Latinos of Asia is groundbreaking. Ocampo examines racial identities among Filipino Americans not simply in relation to whites, but in relation to other minorities. Through candid and eloquent responses from Filipino American immature adults, and engaging links to scholarly discussions, Ocampo tracks the fluidity of race and argues that place matters in how people come to think nigh themselves."
— Robyn Rodriguez, University of California, Davis

"Anthony Ocampo's fascinating study illustrates how Filipinos do non fit neatly into American racial categories. His highly accessible narrative carries the reader through unlike social and institutional contexts that draw Filipinos dorsum and forth over panethnic lines, and challenge our notion of what panethnicity means in America."
— Wendy Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of British Columbia

"Are Filipino Americans Asian, Latino, or something else entirely? In this provocative book, Anthony Ocampo deftly combines survey analysis, in-depth interviews, and personal narrative to testify that the respond is not a simple ane. It depends critically on context and has of import implications for matters such as life chances, life choices, and race relations in a apace diversifying nation."
— Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor and Associate Dean of Public Policy, University of California Riverside

"In this innovative book, Anthony Ocampo brings to low-cal the ambiguities and ambivalences of a racial identity that is always Filipina/o simply besides contingently Asian, Latina/o, and fifty-fifty Pacific Islander. Brimming with unexpected findings and insightful explanations, The Latinos of Asia underscores the intrinsic instability and indelible power of race."
— Moon-Kie Jung, author of Below the Surface of White Supremacy

"Engaging and timely, The Latinos of Asia shatters static, homogenizing, and binary categorizations of Asian Americans and Latinas/os. Presenting powerful testimonials by Filipinos from ii Los Angeles communities and centering dynamics in schools and neighborhoods, this must-read book complicates understandings of race, identity, and Los Angeles."
— Gilda 50. Ochoa, Author of Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans and the Achievement Gap

Speeches

The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Pause the Rules of Race
Is race only almost the color of your pare? In this talk, Dr. Ocampo focuses on Filipino Americans to show that what "color" you lot are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans are officially classified equally Asian, but share many cultural characteristics with Latinos. Are they "becoming" Asian or Latino? By elevating the voices of Filipino Americans, Dr. Ocampo will discuss how their racial identities "alter" depending on the communities they grow up in, the schools they attend, and the people they befriend. This talk offers a window into both the racial consciousness of everyday people and the changing racial landscape of U.S. club.

Rethinking Race, Gender, and Education: Intersectional Approaches to School-Community Relationships
While at that place has been an explosion of enquiry on the school experiences of LGBTQ students and the immigrant 2d generation, respectively, few studies accept centered the experiences of second-generation youth who as well happen to be queer. In this talk, Dr. Ocampo presents findings from his comparative inquiry on Latino and Asian American queer male youth and demonstrates how an empirical deep dive into their educational lives reveals how schools are racialized, gendered, and heteronormative. He too discusses how research on students with intersectional identities holds important implications for theories of educational inequality, educational practice, and community engagement, peculiarly every bit information technology relates to immigrant communities.

To Exist Dark-brown and Gay in the Usa
Immigration, race, and LGBTQ rights accept been headline issues the by few decades, but the experiences of individuals whose identities cut across all three issues take remained invisible to most. In this talk, Dr. Ocampo why this is and addresses the struggles that LGBTQ people of color confront in guild to be seen, non merely past the public, just also by their immigrant families, ethnic communities, and the the mainstream gay community. Cartoon on the experiences of Latino and Asian American gay men, Dr. Ocampo chronicles the creative strategies that they employ to encompass their identities and to create customs, even while facing both racism and homophobia in their everyday lives.

Gay Minority Masculinities
Studies of masculinity examine the experiences of heterosexual white men and men of color, as well every bit gay white men. Nevertheless, significantly fewer studies accept thoroughly addressed the topic of masculinity amidst gay racial minorities. Cartoon on ethnographic research of gay Latino social circles in Los Angeles, this talk discusses how Latino gay men negotiate boundaries of masculinity in their social interactions. These men utilise specific strategies when "doing" masculinity, which in plough are shaped past their racialization as Latinos within the U.s.a. context, their gendered socialization within their immigrant family unit, and feelings of exclusion within mainstream gay spaces. These findings hold implications for improve agreement and addressing racial and class schisms within the larger LGBTQ move.

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