Robert Chao Romero

Robert Chao Romero (born 1972) is a Chinese-Latinx American historian and immigration lawyer at UCLA. He is the author of The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940, winner of the Latin American Studies Association's Latina/o Studies Section Book Award.[1]

Biography

Romero was the maternal-grandson of the Chinese evangelist Calvin Chao (Zhao Junying, 1906–1996), who Christianity Today called as “the Chinese Billy Graham.”[2][3] Romero's father was from Chihuahua, Mexico and his mother is from Hubei, China.

He received his Bachelor of Arts in History at UCLA in 1994 and his Juris Doctor at UC Berkeley in 1998, following a Doctor of Philosophy in Latin American History at UCLA in 2003. His first monograph, The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940, investigates the history of the Chinese community in Mexico, which receives the Latina/o Studies Section Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association.[1]

He is currently Associate Professor at the Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA. His research mainly examines Asian immigration to Latin America. Due to his background as an attorney, he is also interested in immigration law and policy.[4]

He is the co-founder of Jesus 4 Revolutionaries, a Christian ministry to activists, and the co-chair of the Matthew 25 Movement in Southern California.[5] He was ordained in the early 2000s by Faye Newman in South Los Angeles.[6]

Selected Works
  • Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity. Grand Rapid:IVP, 2020. ISBN 9780830853953
  • The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2010. ISBN 9780816514601

References
  1. webteam. "Robert Chao Romero". UCLA Chavez. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  2. Bieler, Stacey; Hamrin, Carol Lee. "Christianity Fever". Christian History | Learn the History of Christianity & the Church. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  3. So, Wing-yui. "The China Inland Mission and The Chinese Christian Student Movement in 1937-1956".
  4. "Migration as the Manifold Grace of God: Robert Chao Romero". Emerging Scholars Blog. 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  5. "Bio". Robert Chao Romero. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  6. Romero, Robert Chao, 1972-. Brown church : five centuries of Latina/o social justice, theology, and identity. Downers Grove, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-8308-5395-3. OCLC 1142046300.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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