Filipinx/a/o American Crossovers
Scholar Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr. will discuss his research on identity and other topics.
About the Speaker
Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr. is assistant professor of Asian and Asian American Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is author of Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play (NYU Press, 2024). He is also co-editor of the anthology, Asian American Sporting Cultures (NYU Press, 2016 along with co-editors Stanley I. Thangaraj and Christina B. Chin). His research interests focus on sports, U.S. empire, diaspora, and transnationalism, at the nexus of nexus of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. He is a first-generation college student and a child of immigrant parents from the Philippines.
This program is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice.