In collaboration with the Latino Cultural Center, the AAARCC is hosting Dr. Fredy Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Gonzalez will lecture on the topic: "Chinese Mexicans and Mexicanidad." In this talk, Dr. Gonzalez will give a brief history of Chinese immigration to Mexico during the twentieth century and illustrate some of the ways the Chinese contributed to and claimed belonging to the Mexican nation. Despite experiencing consistent hate and harassment from anti-Chinese activists who claimed that the Chinese would never fit into the Mexican nation, some migrants found ways to survive and set down roots in their new country.