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Reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be
central to social science research and methods There is a growing
consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences
broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the
present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism,
imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and
globally. In Disciplinary Futures, a cross-section of scholars
comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way
of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines
of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays
from scholars such as Yen Le Espiritu, Sunaina Maira, Hokulani K.
Aikau, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Ben Carrington, Yvonne Sherwood, and
Gilda L. Ochoa, among others, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete
pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting
frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism, namely:
the black-white binary, the privileging of the nation-state, the
fixation on the US mainland, the underappreciation of post- and
settler-colonial studies, the liberal assumptions, and the limited
conception of what constitutes data. In turn, the contributors
reveal that sociology has many useful questions, methodologies, and
approaches to offer scholars of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous
Studies. Disciplinary Futuresis an important work, one which
renders these disciplines more intellectually expansive and thus
better able to tackle urgent issues of injustice.
An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school
learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even
our best schools to educate children Beyond soccer leagues, music
camps, and drama lessons, today's youth are in an education arms
race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan
Dhingra uncovers the growing world of high-achievement education
and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math
competitions that it has spawned. It is a world where immigrant
families vie with other Americans to be at the head of the class,
putting in hours of studying and testing in order to gain a
foothold in the supposed meritocracy of American public education.
A world where enrichment centers, like Kumon, have seen 194 percent
growth since 2002 and target children as young as three. Even
families and teachers who avoid after-school academics are getting
swept up. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews with teachers,
tutors, principals, children, and parents, Dhingra delves into the
why people participate in this phenomenon and examines how schools,
families, and communities play their part. Moving past "Tiger Mom"
stereotypes, he addresses why Asian American and white families
practice what he calls "hyper education" and whether or not it
makes sense. By taking a behind-the-scenes look at the Scripps
National Spelling Bee, other national competitions, and learning
centers, Dhingra shows why good schools, good grades, and good
behavior are seen as not enough for high-achieving students and
their parents and why the education arms race is likely to continue
to expand.
Pawan Dhingra has written a pioneering book on the world of
American motels and hotels. Close attention to the stories told by
the people who work in the trade allows Dhingra to go behind the
stereotypes, and give us a tale of human beings struggling to make
livings and lives. This is a people's sociology of hotel
work.-Vijay Prashad, Trinity College. Life Behind the Lobby
assesses a central debate about U.S. migration: should the
achievements of self-employed migrants be regarded as evidence of
the openness, tolerance, and meritocracy of an increasingly
neoliberal American society, or should their sacrifices,
confrontations with racism, and feelings of social marginalization
be taken as proof of the enduring place of discrimination,
inequality, and white privilege? Pawan Dhingra's sophisticated and
highly original analysis does much to advance our understanding of
international migration, ethnic entrepreneurship, and migrants'
ability to work collectively to cope with, if not fully overcome,
the circumstances they face.-Steven J. Gold, Michigan State
University, author of The Store in the Hood: A Century of Business
and Conflict (2010)
Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United
States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from
the same region in India andOCoalthough they are not all
relatedOCoseventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most
of these motel owners arrived in the United States with few
resources and, broadly speaking, they are self-employed,
self-sufficient immigrants who have become successfulOCothey live
the American dream.
However, framing this group as embodying the American dream has
profound implications. It perpetuates the idea of American
exceptionalismOCothat this nation creates opportunities for
newcomers unattainable elsewhereOCoand also downplays the
inequalities of race, gender, culture, and globalization immigrants
continue to face. Despite their dominance in the motel industry,
Indian American moteliers are concentrated in lower- and mid-budget
markets. "Life Behind the Lobby" explains Indian Americans'
simultaneous accomplishments and marginalization and takes a close
look at their own role in sustaining that duality."
How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they
necessarily compartmentalize their personal lives from their
professional lives? Do minority and immigrant groups, in
particular, act "ethnic" at home, "American" at work, "racial" in
pan-ethnic spaces? Managing Multicultural Lives moves past this
common assumption and demonstrates how minorities actually bring
together contrasting identities. Using the words and experiences of
Indian American and Korean American professionals themselves, Pawan
Dhingra eloquently shows how people break down the popular "margins
vs. mainstream" conception of group identity and construct a "lived
hybridity." He offers new insight into minorities' experiences at
work, at home, and in civil society. These Asian Americans' ability
to handle group boundaries fluidly leads them to both resist and
support stratified social patterns. It also indicates new, more
nuanced understandings of immigrant adaptation, multiculturalism,
and identity management that pertain to multiple types of immigrant
groups.
An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school
learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even
our best schools to educate children Beyond soccer leagues, music
camps, and drama lessons, today's youth are in an education arms
race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan
Dhingra uncovers the growing world of high-achievement education
and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math
competitions that it has spawned. It is a world where immigrant
families vie with other Americans to be at the head of the class,
putting in hours of studying and testing in order to gain a
foothold in the supposed meritocracy of American public education.
A world where enrichment centers, like Kumon, have seen 194 percent
growth since 2002 and target children as young as three. Even
families and teachers who avoid after-school academics are getting
swept up. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews with teachers,
tutors, principals, children, and parents, Dhingra delves into the
why people participate in this phenomenon and examines how schools,
families, and communities play their part. Moving past "Tiger Mom"
stereotypes, he addresses why Asian American and white families
practice what he calls "hyper education" and whether or not it
makes sense. By taking a behind-the-scenes look at the Scripps
National Spelling Bee, other national competitions, and learning
centers, Dhingra shows why good schools, good grades, and good
behavior are seen as not enough for high-achieving students and
their parents and why the education arms race is likely to continue
to expand.
How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they
necessarily compartmentalize their personal lives from their
professional lives? Do minority and immigrant groups, in
particular, act "ethnic" at home, "American" at work, "racial" in
pan-ethnic spaces? Managing Multicultural Lives moves past this
common assumption and demonstrates how minorities actually bring
together contrasting identities. Using the words and experiences of
Indian American and Korean American professionals themselves, Pawan
Dhingra eloquently shows how people break down the popular "margins
vs. mainstream" conception of group identity and construct a "lived
hybridity." He offers new insight into minorities' experiences at
work, at home, and in civil society. These Asian Americans' ability
to handle group boundaries fluidly leads them to both resist and
support stratified social patterns. It also indicates new, more
nuanced understandings of immigrant adaptation, multiculturalism,
and identity management that pertain to multiple types of immigrant
groups.
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the
country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences
of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally,
both historically and today. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra
and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically examine key sociological
topics through the experiences of Asian Americans, including social
hierarchies (of race, gender, and sexuality), work, education,
family, culture, identity, media, pan-ethnicity, social movements,
and politics. With vivid examples and lucid discussion of a broad
range of theories, the authors demonstrate the contributions of the
discipline of sociology to understanding Asian Americans, and vice
versa. In addition, this text takes students beyond the boundaries
of the United States to cultivate a comparative and global
understanding of the Asian experience, as it has become
increasingly transnational and diasporic. Bridging sociology and
the growing interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies, and
uniquely placing them in dialogue with one another, this engaging
text will be welcome in undergraduate and graduate sociology
courses such as race and ethnic relations, immigration, and social
stratification, as well as on ethnic studies courses more broadly.
Reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be
central to social science research and methods There is a growing
consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences
broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the
present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism,
imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and
globally. In Disciplinary Futures, a cross-section of scholars
comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way
of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines
of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays
from scholars such as Yen Le Espiritu, Sunaina Maira, Hokulani K.
Aikau, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Ben Carrington, Yvonne Sherwood, and
Gilda L. Ochoa, among others, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete
pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting
frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism, namely:
the black-white binary, the privileging of the nation-state, the
fixation on the US mainland, the underappreciation of post- and
settler-colonial studies, the liberal assumptions, and the limited
conception of what constitutes data. In turn, the contributors
reveal that sociology has many useful questions, methodologies, and
approaches to offer scholars of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous
Studies. Disciplinary Futuresis an important work, one which
renders these disciplines more intellectually expansive and thus
better able to tackle urgent issues of injustice.
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the
country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences
of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally,
both historically and today. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra
and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically examine key sociological
topics through the experiences of Asian Americans, including social
hierarchies (of race, gender, and sexuality), work, education,
family, culture, identity, media, pan-ethnicity, social movements,
and politics. With vivid examples and lucid discussion of a broad
range of theories, the authors demonstrate the contributions of the
discipline of sociology to understanding Asian Americans, and vice
versa. In addition, this text takes students beyond the boundaries
of the United States to cultivate a comparative and global
understanding of the Asian experience, as it has become
increasingly transnational and diasporic. Bridging sociology and
the growing interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies, and
uniquely placing them in dialogue with one another, this engaging
text will be welcome in undergraduate and graduate sociology
courses such as race and ethnic relations, immigration, and social
stratification, as well as on ethnic studies courses more broadly.
The booming 1990s saw a new demographic pattern emerging in the
United States the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and
metropolitan areas in ethnically homogenous (or traditionally
bicultural) areas. These places offer growing, specialized
economies in need of unskilled or semi-skilled (and occasionally
skilled) labor; they also offer, for some immigrants, a favorable
physical and social climate. Immigrants Outside Megalopolis
documents this trend with case studies including Hmong in
Wisconsin, Iranians in Iowa, Mexicans in Kansas and Colorado,
Vietnamese in coastal Louisiana, Mexicans in North Carolina and
south Texas, Cubans in Arizona, Bosnians in upstate New York, Asian
Indians in north Texas, and Ukranians and Russians in the
Willamette Valley of Oregon. Truly, this process is resulting in a
cultural transformation of the U.S. heartland. The implantation of
new features on the cultural landscape (businesses, homes,
churches, schools, possessions, and the peoples themselves) is
giving many Americans a world geography lesson at a time when
increased world understanding is something the country cannot do
without. This geography lesson comes at a cost, however: the
difficult process of social adjustment, playing out on a daily
basis between immigrant and host populations, which remains largely
unresolved. This process is an important focus of Jones's book."
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