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Link roundup: the Asian American 99%, Philly bullying victims, Invisible...
I usually do this on Wednesdays, but this Hyphen post about the Asian American 99% is likely to spark a good amount of discussion before then: The College Admissions Debate & the Asian American 1%...
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Making and breaking the model minority myth
Today the Boston Globe profiled two Vietnamese American brothers who are both students at the Boston Latin School, one of the top public schools in the United States. Boston Latin is analogous to New...
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Wednesday link roundup: lost in translation
Australians and Americans should not be learning foreign languages? Chris Berg argues in The Age that Australian students’ interest in Asian languages is declining because English is already the...
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Chinese families rushing to get US education; Koreans not so sure anymore
Somehow three different articles on Asian international students in the US came to my attention in the last 24 hours. Helen Gao writes for the Atlantic about how China’s nouveaux riches are flocking to...
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Briefly: boat people and yacht people
Sri Lankan asylees and labor migrants Al Jazeera has a short video report on Sri Lankans leaving for Australia by boat. Some claim political persecution, though others are simply seeking better...
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Learn English and release your inner white person
At Language on the Move, Kimie Takahashi (高橋君江) links Thailand’s struggle to find qualified English teachers to its unchallenged link between English ability and whiteness. As in many Asian countries,...
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Little Harvard-to-Be Prep School Academy
In writing my master’s thesis on Chinese language schools, I’m reading tons of books and articles on ethnic language schools and their cousins, ethnic cram schools. Sociologists and education scholars...
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How the Liangs became the Leóns
China Daily, a state-controlled, English-language newspaper, ran a feature story about Sol de León, a third-generation Chinese Panamanian woman who visited her ancestral hometown near Guangzhou. De...
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Blacks, Latinos, and the push to learn Chinese
Over at my academic page I’ve written about racialized language ideology and a new mandate in the US state of Georgia to have all students learn Chinese. Update 9/11/12: I have reposted the text here....
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My first post for Asian-Nation: Balancing American, Mainland, and Taiwanese...
C.N. Le of Asian-Nation has graciously invited me to contribute to his blog, which was one of the first (if not the first) sociology blog looking specifically at Asian Americans. I remember reading...
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