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October 2012

October 05, 2012

Racial-Religious Patterns in the 2012 Elections

I received a news alert from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life where...

September 2012

September 21, 2012

Being American by Being Korean? K-Pop and Korean American Identity

Growing up Korean American, it was taken for granted that Korean culture and politics would...

September 14, 2012

Go to Church, Skip Your Bible? Religious Incongruity in the News

As a Christian trained in sociology it's sometimes difficult to "leave the statistics alone" when...

September 08, 2012

The Promise and Peril of Christian Solidarity: Lynching in the Christian South

In between teaching and professional conferences, I have recently embarked on a few trips to...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

Panda Express(ions): Commodifying and Constructing Pan-Asian-ness

With the start of the new semester comes the renewed search for interesting examples to...

August 20, 2012

Ideals and Realities of Religious Tolerance

The recent event involving the killing of Sikh Americans in their house of worship (gurdwara)...

August 03, 2012

Most Mainline or Most Evangelical? Miscounts and Religious County Membership

In the race to produce relevant researched stories it’s important to know that error sometimes...

July 2012

July 27, 2012

New Questions About Asian American Buddhists

Since 1965, the Buddhist population has grown considerably as a result of increased immigration from...

July 20, 2012

Building a Better Asian American Survey

As some readers may know, the 2nd report on religion in Asian America was released....

July 13, 2012

Socializing Character Through Popular Comic Books

Fill in the blank: “With great power _______” If you know the answer to this,...

July 06, 2012

On our trek across the mid-Atlantic states recently, I experienced what I might describe as...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Of Institutions and Communal Memory

It’s been a tough week here in Waco. I hope readers of this blog will...

June 22, 2012

Good Data, Confusing News and the Reinforcing of Stereotypes: Reporting on The Pew Asian American Survey Report

Over the past year I have had the privilege to work with the Pew Research...

June 15, 2012

Tiger Alumni Giving – An Outsider’s View

Hep! Hep! Rah! Rah! Rah! Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Sis! Sis! Sis! Boom! Boom! Boom! Bah!...

June 08, 2012

Tracing Your Ancestry? Thank a Mormon!

Work in the summer continues and while the emphasis is on getting research papers written,...

June 01, 2012

The Religious Non-Christian Diaspora

In my continuing research over Asian American diversity, one of the recurring issues is religious...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Poverty and the “Model Minority”

As Asian Pacific American Heritage Month draws to a close during this election year, I...

May 16, 2012

Asian Americans on the Move

I recently had a chance to see the new Avengers movie and one of the...

May 09, 2012

Behind the Numbers: Asian Americans and Social Institutions

As part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Census provides a fact sheet of...

May 04, 2012

Hard Work + Structural Advantages: 20+ Years of Korean Immigrant Businesses

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month everyone! May is a tough month to reflect on...

April 2012

April 27, 2012

Sa-I-Gu: the Los Angeles Riots 20 Years Later

Some Koreans, especially those who are culturally engaged and fluent in the language know the...

April 20, 2012

Race, Culture and Character: Seeing Jesus

Recently painter Thomas Kinkade, “painter of light” passed away at the early age of 54....

April 06, 2012

Time to be present

In the rush of the spring semester some professors (ok maybe it’s just me) reach...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Trayvon Martin and the implicit prejudice of faith

By now many readers of this blog are probably at least slightly aware of the...

March 16, 2012

Faith and the Duty Work of Fathering

When I teach sociology I usually think about daily life examples to stress the value...

March 09, 2012

Small Enough to Hate: Anti-Muslim American Behavior

I teach at a faith-based university, one that identifies itself as particularly Baptist and broadly...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

Institutional Drift of the Working Class

Has something happened to our working class? While much of my research has focused on...

February 17, 2012

Harvard, Hoops, Hope, and Hype: America’s Lin-fatuation

My Facebook newsfeed is suffering from Linsomnia. Discovering a new celebrity like Jeremy Lin for...

February 10, 2012

The End of Expressing Faith in Public Spaces?

As a young college student, one of the appeals of participating in an evangelical group...

February 03, 2012

The Real Taboo: Forget Sex, Let’s Talk About Money (and How Much We’re not Giving)

As the 2012 campaigns are under way, we sociologists are paying close attention to the...

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