http://www.cnle.net An Asian American sociology professor's progressive look at current events Mon, 05 May 2008 13:19:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Dear readers, After much consideration, I have decided that it is time for me to retire this blog. The primary reason for such is: as some of you may already know, I also maintain another blog on my Asian-Nation site. I have maintained that site and blog longer ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/03/retiring-this-blog/ Asian Americans know that the competition to get into the top colleges and universities is quite intense these days. With that in mind, as the Korean newspaper JoongAng Daily reports, many Korean American students have decided to skip the U.S. entirely and instead, attend the top universities in South ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/03/korean-americans-going-to-korean-colleges/ I’m not shy about it -- even professors need a spring break too. So I’m off to visit some friends and do some camping in North Carolina for a few days. Hopefully I’ll return in one piece and be back blogging on Friday. See you then. http://www.cnle.net/2008/03/temporary-hiatus-going-on-spring-break/ It’s no secret that the national debate surrounding illegal immigration has at a boiling point in recent years. With that in mind, as Diverse Education reports, it’s probably not a coincidence that the number of hate crimes committed against Latinos in recent years has also increased significantly: The Southern Poverty ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/03/anti-latino-hate-crimes-on-the-rise/ March is Women’s History Month and to commemorate it, the Census Bureau has again released their “Facts for Features” page that contains various demographic and socioeconomic data and statistics about women in the U.S.. Here are some of the more notable figures: 153.6 million: The number of females in the ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/03/facts-for-womens-history-month/ A former student of mine, Nate Bae Kupel, has been hard at work on helping to create a new radio show devoted to Asian Americans and is happy to report that the show is finally ready. His announcement is below: ———————————————- As I Am: Asians In America Radio Pilot As I Am ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/03/new-asian-american-radio-show/ I’ve been given the opportunity to conduct the first (and hopefully not last) giveaway contest on this blog -- here’s your chance to win a free DVD of Blue State. Featuring Academy Award winner Anna Paquin, Blue State is an independent film about a disgruntled John Kerry ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/03/giveaway-contest-what-if-democrats-lost/ I received the following email asking for my help in announcing a survey on political attitudes, by researchers at SUNY Stony Brook: —————————————— Hello. I am writing to ask for your help with a survey which is part of my dissertation project. I was wondering if you would be willing to post ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/03/survey-about-presidential-campaign/ One of the main themes in my research as a scholar in Sociology and Asian American Studies is the connection between individual and institutional processes of assimilation. As I’ve written about in various posts on this blog, this particular focus can take many different forms. One form that I’ve recently ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/02/cultural-symbols-assimilation-and-freedom-of-expression/ As a university professor, I tend to be particularly sensitive to how Asian Americans are treated on college campuses. With that in mind, two recent events highlight both the good and the bad aspects of how Asian Americans are treated in higher education. First off is the bad part: ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/02/how-asian-americans-are-treated-at-college-campuses/ On my other blog, I’ve written before about how many aspects of traditional Asian culture are increasingly becoming incorporated into mainstream American culture, with some of the most recent examples being manga, food and cuisine, and meditation. As the Associated Press/Salon.com report, we can now add feng shui in ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/02/another-example-of-east-west-convergence/ On the heels of my recent post about the Australian government’s official apology to its aborigine population, the Associated Press reports that Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan) has proposed legislation that would officially apologize to the American Indian population for centuries of mistreatment from the federal government: “For too much of our ... http://www.cnle.net/2008/02/apology-to-american-indians-proposed/