📕 ”Teaching the Invisible Race” IPPY 🏅 for Education Theory. 🗣️ed-policy, sociology, & health equity grounded in Critical Filipinx Studies & AsianCrit at UW-Madison 🦡 ✍🏽words in NBC, Harvard Ed, Hechinger, NPRhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3mlvrhatdu22dHonored to be a 2026 NAEd / Spencer Dissertation Fellow🙏🏽. Grateful for this support in this crucial time. I’m a sociologist who studies race, education, and policy from a critical Southeast Asian American lens. Read the dissertation award here: https://naeducation.org/awardee/tony-delarosa/15 May 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvrhatdu22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3mj2sgwkf5s2dPresented for the first time at the Association for Asian American Studies on community engaged research with Filipino communities! Ain’t this funny, the side project became the main project? Legendary Ethnic Studies scholar and mentor Ate Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales served as our discussant 🙏🏽🇵🇭09 Apr 2026 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2sgwkf5s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3mhbfboflck2aMy latest book review in Mochi Magazine on Gayatri Sethi’s “Diaspora-Ish”. I’m at a point in my life where Asian American authors are starting to ask me to review and/or endorse their books 📕. I don’t take it lightly. I’m hella grateful. https://www.mochimag.com/activism/diaspora-ish_gayatri-sethi/17 Mar 2026 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbfboflck2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3mae2rfd4u22vWhen NYC Filipino Americans find each other in Madison 🙏🏽. If you haven’t checked out Chris Maliwat’s work with SubwayGram (more active in IG) go get that photography book 📕 as a perfect coffee table piece for the holidays. subwaygram.com?srsltid=AfmB...19 Dec 2025 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mae2rfd4u22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3mae2mwjp6c2v#docdadsofcolor finishing up Q4 ! Curtis is preparing for a talk in St Louis and I am working on a my NYU Faculty First Look Application 🙏🏽.19 Dec 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3mae2mwjp6c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3m6g6fjh4722oWhen you are a Filipino scholar asked to speak on the day that Wisconsin passes its first ever Filipino American History Month resolution, you come with that poem in your pocket. https://education.wisc.edu/news/uw-madisons-delarosa-speaks-at-wisconsin-state-capitol-for-filipino-american-history-month/25 Nov 2025 01:20 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6g6fjh4722ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3m4wmcw2ujs2hKuya Tony is a PhD Candidate / ABD on 11/5/2025 🙏🏽🇵🇭✊🏽. #phdjourney06 Nov 2025 03:22 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4wmcw2ujs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3m422iuhscc24Happy Larry Itliong Day ! ✊🏽🇵🇭25 Oct 2025 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3m422iuhscc24https://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3m3fkmxp7os2h“Children learn more from what you learn than what you teach” -Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois Imagery from my talk on Du Boisian sociology at Princeton. Thank you @theepuproject for the invite.17 Oct 2025 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3fkmxp7os2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3m3arz3wjns2z“We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities” is now OUT! (Image from @drjaimeeswift ). Just purchased it and about to do a book club on it with my peer mentees. Go shower this book with love, buy it, bring them to your universities or companies, and amplify it. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻❤️15 Oct 2025 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3arz3wjns2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3m2tsvu7oik2d“Teaching the Invisible Race” made it to Princeton University! I got to speak on the Du Boisian research that influenced my book’s theory. There is no Pro-Asianess without Du Boisian Pro-Black theory. If you need a speaker for your upcoming events in 2026 holler! Contact: www.tonyrosaspeaks.com10 Oct 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tsvu7oik2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3m2js63jlvc2wIn 1955, W. Faulkner toured the Philippines as part of a U.S. State Department “cultural diplomacy” mission—one of many Cold War efforts to export “American freedom” through art. 🇵🇭✍🏽 Filipino writers, however, met Faulkner’s message with sharp critique, asking: Whose freedom?06 Oct 2025 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2js63jlvc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lzjxnryf2222#docdadsofcolor dissertation writing sesh ! 4 years in and we still out here ✊🏽✊🏿 we also bought tickets to a JID concert 🙏🏽 his new album is dope23 Sep 2025 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzjxnryf2222https://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lz7gk35wys2aJust found out that 📕 “Teaching the Invisible Race” is used in a class at UW-Madison in the Education Policy Studies department 🙏🏽. If you’re using it or want to let’s connect !! Book 📕 : www.tonyrosaspeaks.com19 Sep 2025 17:51 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7gk35wys2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lz355cndnk2mCongrats to my friend Rep Francesca Hong for launching her campaign for WI Governor! She represents the working class 🙏🏽18 Sep 2025 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz355cndnk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lwwovps7gs2qNow till end of this semester, learn from Hmong / HMoob leaders & scholars. I’ll take any recommendations. Right now I’m learning from Ma Vang’s & Chundou Her’s work. I’m trying to see if there is a documented HMoob critical race theory. My Hmong friends are pointing me to Critical Refugee Studies.21 Aug 2025 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwovps7gs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lvobsntzw22mOnline facilitation today at New Haven Public Schools. So dope to see so many dope scholars and practitioners at this summit. Big shout out to my fellow homies also speaking today. @gholdym @social_justis ✊🏽❤️. #isangbagsak05 Aug 2025 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvobsntzw22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lv2va4fva227 When in Anchorage, Alaska go meet Dr. EJ Ramos David 🙏🏽🇵🇭. He wrote Brown Skin White Minds which continues to be an essential read for FilAms. We are doing a signed book swap. I cite his theories on colonial mentality in my book.29 Jul 2025 00:50 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv2va4fva227https://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lu64wr47xc2ePeep this recent interview I did with the @futureancestors.tv podcast! Love what they are doing with amplifying Filipinx voices and helping us unpack counter stories to have a intergenerational connection to Philippine diaspora https://youtu.be/Bblvzaipm8o?si=1nt0EPIlSAtbHriz17 Jul 2025 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu64wr47xc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3ltoxahxpqk2qThe NEA breaks ties with the Anti-Defamation League—good news. The ADL is not what many people think. I support pro-Jewish education but reject Zionist education. Both can be true.11 Jul 2025 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltoxahxpqk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lqau2tzmvs26The haunting continues… Watching a baby too hungry to cry, as I feed my child. Watching a video of a child escape a burning building in Gaza as I hold my baby girl rocking her to sleep. Watching another hardening layer of genoc\de as normal because the people wear their skin like sheep. 😖28 May 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqau2tzmvs26https://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lpdakmv5mk2oNew Date ☝🏽 this webinar on combating anti-blackness in the FilAm community is on May 28th from 6-7:30 CT / 7-8:30 ET. FilAms come through !17 May 2025 00:03 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpdakmv5mk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lor2bqge522sBringing “Teaching the Invisible Race” features back! L DRA. ROSE ANN GUTIERREZ. Doktora Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor at University of Nevada Reno where she studies race, immigration, and the undocu-Asian American experience.09 May 2025 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lor2bqge522shttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3loaia2he6s2hReflections for AsianAm, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander Month: *my heritage is grounded in anti-imperialism *we don’t have this month w/o Ethnic Studies innovations like Black History Month 1/303 May 2025 04:17 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3loaia2he6s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lncbf2z47c2tIn Denver this week for @aera_edresearch. Come through! I’m presenting from 3 research projects: 1) on Asian America and P@1st!n3, 2) on the NYC Men Teach Asian American Male teacher program that I founded, and 3) Asian American Education Policy in Wisconsin with some dope humans.21 Apr 2025 03:55 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lncbf2z47c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/tonyrosaspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lmpgympktc24The critical Filipino American educator-activist world is so small. While at a deaf drag show celebrating my friend John aka Anita Martini (left image - we had to get 🍸 ), John introduced me to a Pinay deaf activist named Tina Childress who knows one of my research mentors out of CA. #serendeptity13 Apr 2025 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:2egq4iu7yps3nbuk6qa4vmwe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmpgympktc24