Join the Department of African American Studies for our ongoing series, In Dialogue, for a lecture and Q&A with Tony DelaRosa, titled “Du Boisian Black-Asian Relationality & Racialization: A Critical Discourse Analysis”. We will be raffling off two copies of DelaRosa’s book, Teaching the Invisible Race: Embodying a Pro-Asian American Lens in Schools, to all in attendance.
Tony DelaRosa is the son of Pampangan & Caviteño Filipino immigrants and the father of two Filipinx-Cuban kids. Tony holds an Masters in Arts Education and Non-Profit Management from Harvard University. He is now a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Education Leadership & Policy Analysis department, where he researches how institutions, ethnic studies policies, and coalitions impact teacher and leadership practices, as well as the policy advocacy of HMoob and Asian American leaders. He is the author of the book “Teaching the Invisible Race: Embodying a Pro-Asian American Lens in Schools,” published by Jossey-Bass, which won an IPPY Award for Education Theory and Commentary and was a finalist for the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He co-investigates the USAP Tayo Lab at the Center for Healthy Minds at UW-Madison, where he researches the correlation between politics and the well-being of Filipina/x/o Americans. Before his research, he was a humanities teacher in Indianapolis and Boston, and an teacher and principal coach in Miami and Indianapolis between 2012 and 2022. His work has been featured in CNN, NPR, Harvard Education Magazine, NBC, KQED, the Hechinger Report and elsewhere. Learn more at TonyRosaSpeaks.com.