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Asian American Exceptionalism and “Stereotype Promise”

by Jennifer Lee, May 4, 2012, at 10:49 am
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is in the sociology department at the University of California at Irvine and is a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar for 2011-2012.
Jeremy Lin is #1 on TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” list this year. As one of only a few Asian American players in the history of the NBA, the first American-born player of Chinese descent, and the first Harvard graduate to play in the league for almost 60 years, Lin has tackled many firsts, and in the process, has broken barriers. Lin splashed onto our screens …Keep Reading
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Tiger Kids and the Success Frame

by Jennifer Lee, Apr 18, 2012, at 02:50 pm
In early 2011, The Wall Street Journal published “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” by Yale Law professor Amy Chua in advance of the release of her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Chua’s argument that Eastern parenting is superior to …Keep Reading
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Invisible Children and Invisible Ugandans, with Amy Finnegan

by Shannon Golden, Apr 3, 2012, at 03:17 pm
As media gasp at the enormous viewership of the most recent Invisible Children video and the public engages in a heated debate over the organization’s financial practices and the apparent breakdown of one of its founders, one group has been …Keep Reading
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The Social Functions of Religion in American Political Culture

by Joseph Gerteis, Mar 14, 2012, at 10:11 am
Wrangling over the proper nature of the connection between politics and religion has been persistent and passionate since the Puritans first arrived in the new world. On the surface, today’s division seems to be between a religious right and a …Keep Reading
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Revisiting Unequal Childhoods with Annette Lareau

by Kia Heise and Jack Lam, Mar 5, 2012, at 04:34 am
Ten years after the ethnographic work Annette Lareau undertook for her best-selling text Unequal Childhoods, she’s retraced her steps, adding 100 pages to the second edition, out now from the University of California Press. In this excerpt from her Office …Keep Reading