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March 2015

March 06, 2015

One Step Forward, but Now What?

Repost from Patheos Public Square: March From Selma In 1965, participants of the American Civil...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

Greater Acceptance, Persisting Antipathy: 50 Years of Religious Change

by Jerry Park, Joshua Tom, and Brita Andercheck, The following is a re-post in honor...

May 2014

May 22, 2014

Keeping (and Losing) Faith, the Asian American Way (Repost)

Originally posted on AAPI Voices May 22, 2014 Keeping (and Losing) Faith, the Asian American...

January 2014

January 03, 2014

The Top 11 from ’13: Academic Journals of Sociological Research on Religion

It’s 2014 and time for an annual review of the religion-related articles in the...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

Cultivating Ethnic and Religious Identities for Chinese Americans

This past summer I continued my readings in social scientific and popular readings of ethnicity,...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

The March on Washington remembered

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington from which we gain many...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

Race Talk in Colorblind Churches

In the wake of the weekend verdict over George Zimmerman’s shooting and killing of Trayvon...

July 03, 2013

The Social Construction and Comfort of Soul Food

Did you know that “gumbo” is “okra” in the Bantu dialect of the peoples in...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

Hmong, Indian, What’s the Difference?

Recent news on the higher education scene has turned attention to the Asian American case,...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Dialect Maps, Race and Immigration

News items are useful for teaching but they can sometimes provoke new research investigations. For...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Faith and Ethnicity in West, TX

Despite nine years in residence here in central TX, I still feel like a Philadelphian...

April 19, 2013

Texans and Second-Generation Code Switching

In a recent post I shared some reflections on the importance of second-generation Asian American...

April 12, 2013

A new look at the second-generation Korean American and Canadian experience

Last weekend I had the opportunity to participate in another small conference similar to...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Revisiting Catholicism in Asia

In a recent post I shared some of the recent statistics reported by the New...

March 15, 2013

Asian and Asian American Catholicism

It’s no surprise that part of my interest in sociology is autobiographical, and this week’s...

March 01, 2013

The Three Segregations and Asian America

A recurring conversation in sociology is that of segregation. While we are decades away from...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

Gender, Culture and Suicide in Asia and Asian America

Fellow blogger and sociologist Mark Regnerus’ recent post on suicide rates and ideation prompted me...

February 16, 2013

Asian Americans and Interfaith Marriages

It’s a festive time of year for Asian Americans. As many readers know, the Lunar...

February 08, 2013

Interdisciplinary Science Research – the Japanese Way

While attending the American Sociological Association annual meetings are a humbling experience when you hear...

January 2013

January 19, 2013

MLK and Creative Maladjustment

While still recovering from the flu (yes I still got it despite getting a shot...

January 11, 2013

The Top 11 from ’12: an Exceptional Year of Religious Research Studies in Sociology

Last year around this time I introduced readers to the way sociologists rank the...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Asian American Evangelicalism and Middle Class Individualism

About every 3 years or so, a collegiate parachurch ministry called Intervarsity Christian Fellowship holds...

December 22, 2012

Still Retreating from Race: Asian Americans in the Ivy League

“…claims that Asian American students were as well qualified but less likely than whites...

December 07, 2012

Sexism in Racist Tones

Last spring UCLA was the site of a YouTube rant by a former student who...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Sex Work in Vietnam

Much of the material I teach on racial, gender, and class inequalities is US based,...

November 23, 2012

Unexpected Learning From Student’s Experiences of Loss

This past summer I lost a friend at church and a family friend to terminal...

November 16, 2012

“Porn in the Title” and Other Insights Gleaned Over Dinner

In a recent email interchange, Brad Wright suggested we go out to celebrate our 400...

November 02, 2012

Racial Exclusion and Selective Inclusion: One Student’s Observations

Since I teach an undergraduate course on racial, gender and class inequality I am always...

October 2012

October 19, 2012

Racial Religious Patterns in Political Ideology – Expanded Version

In a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center, we had some new statistics available...

October 12, 2012

All in the American Reincarnated Family

In this post I highlight a couple of books I have been reading (which I...

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