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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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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