BOOK
Chinese Mexicans (North Carolina, 2012).
Not only is this a serious history book, but also a highly readable story.–Prof. Antonio C. Hsiang, International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies
A pioneering and innovative study. . . . Utiliz[es] rare materials to illuminate new questions.–Western Historical Quarterly
This book is a must-read for students of the Chinese diaspora in the Americas.–Frontiers of History in China
Recommended. All levels/libraries.–Choice
The lucid prose and clear chronological structure will be appropriate for both general and specialized audiences.–H-Borderlands
Chinese Mexicans demonstrates the racial, gender, sexual, and social mores that were forged in diaspora and forced Chinese Mexican expulsions.–American Quarterly
Contributes substantially to the growing scholarship on long-neglected topic . . . Chinese Mexicans adds to the historiographies on transnational movements, race relations, nationalism, cultural construction, and gender.–The Americas
An accessible book. It can be used well with undergraduate courses and is a good teaching tool for those in the field of oral history.—Hispanic American Historical Review
Camacho’s use of twenty-seven oral interviews (which she conducted) yields insight into aspects of Chinese Mexican experiences previously unexplored by scholars. She captures nuances that are missing from the written record.–American Historical Review
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
“Chinese Latinos and an Imagined Latin America: Transpacific Family, Identity, Culture, and Memory in Hong Kong, Macau, and Southern China,” forthcoming, Journal of Chinese Overseas, November 2024.
“Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s-1960s,” Pacific Historical Review 78, no. 4 (2009): 545-577. Reprinted in Race and Immigration in the United States: New Histories, edited by Paul Spickard (Routledge, 2012).
“Journeys and Trials of the Fu Family: Transpacific Reverberations of the Anti-Chinese Movement in Mexico,” in Orientalism and Identity in Latin America: Fashioning Self and Other from the (Post)Colonial Margin, edited by Erik Camayd-Freixas (University of Arizona Press, 2013).
“At the Borders of Identity: Asians, Mexicans, Interracialism, and Racial Ambiguities,” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 24, Race, edited by Thomas C. Holt and Laurie B. Green(University of North Carolina Press, 2013). Encyclopedia Entry.
CURRENT BOOK PROJECT
Chinese Latinos: Forging the Transpacific Family, Diasporic Community, and Memory. (An article manuscript from this project is currently under consideration with an academic journal.)
Other items to see:
My list of book recommendations on Shepherd: https://shepherd.com/best-books/asian-diasporas-in-americas-with-personal-stories
Christopher De Wolf’s “The Origin of Hong Kong’s Mexico Bun: A Story of Exile and Return: zolimacitymag.com