He is co-editor of the anthology, Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse (2006). His research interests include youth cultural politics, comparative racializations, and empire. He is in the process of completing his manuscript entitled Claiming Hip Hop: Authenticity Debates, Filipino DJs, and Contemporary U.S. Racial and Global Diasporic Formations to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. His next two projects are a critical engagement with the comparative turn in the study of race and ethnicity and mapping the contours of contemporary youth activism.