The First Asians in the Americas - Dr. Diego Javier Luis

Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by Dr. Diego Javier Luis to discuss the first Asians in the Americas as part of Pacific World history. Free and unfree migration, six months of treacherous travel, and cultural uprooting defines the Asian experience in the Spanish Americas. Who were these emigrants, and what happened when they arrived in their new world?
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TRANSCRIPT: coming soon 
OUTLINE:
1:13 - Brief Description of the Book
2:43 - The Terminology and the Word “Chino”
9:29 - A Primary Source Nightmare
15:11 - Contextualizing the Time
18:10 - How Did People End Up on These Ships? Free and Forced Migration
26:28 - Why Isn’t This History More Emphasized?
30:31 - Cultural versus Assigned Identity – Racializing “Asians”
37:45 - The Structures within Spanish Colonial Society
44:36 - Chino Emancipation and Similarities to the Atlantic Slave Trade
48:57 - What You Need to Know about the Spanish Inquisition
53:51 - Catarina de San Juan

EPISODE LINKS:
Diego Javier Luis - https://as.tufts.edu/history/people/faculty/diego-luis
The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674271784
Inquisition - https://www.britannica.com/topic/inquisition
Manila Galleons - https://www.britannica.com/technology/Manila-galleon
Atlantic World - https://history.illinois.edu/atlantic-world
Ethnolinguistics - https://www.britannica.com/science/ethnolinguistics
History of Pampagna - https://www.tagaloglang.com/history-of-pampanga
Caste And Class Structure In Colonial Spanish America - https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/caste-and-class-structure-colonial-spanish-america
Catarina de San Juan - https://thediplomat.com/2024/01/one-womans-journey-from-south-asia-to-mexico-and-from-slave-to-spiritual-icon/
The Conversation - https://theconversation.com/profiles/diego-javier-luis-1475619
Aeon magazine - https://aeon.co/users/diego-javier-luis
Smithsonian Folklife - https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/asian-history-oregon-no-no-boy-1603
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