Carl L Bankston
Biographic Data
| ID | 103113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl L Bankston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bankston |
| SIGNATURE | BANKSTON C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 682 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 77 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility
In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic community. We then provide a quantitative analysis of socioeconomic mobility among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and other national-level data. We examine how this ethnic …
The model minority stereotype and the national identity question
A central issue in contemporary debates over immigration concerns how immigrants from diverse origins become integrated into their host nation. The children of Asian immigrants in the United States often give the impression of fitting neatly into American society and therefore into the American nation as a model minority. We argue, however, that such perception is a misleading overgeneralization and can bring about simplistic interpretations. The…
Uncomprising activist
Downed by friendly fire
Anthropologist Signithia Fordham is probably best known for her collaborations with John Ogbu, and for the controversial "acting white" thesis she and Ogbu proposed as a partial explanation for the
From high school to college
Why does educational attainment vary across categories of people, as well as among individuals? Because the ideological culture of modern societies generally sees social inequality as justifiable t
Between Church and State
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment extended this and other limitations on the federal government to state and local governments. Common schools, however, came into existence before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted in 1868 and religious instruction was widely accepted as a central purpose of schooling in the early years. In more recent times, sc…
City of Gods
Although the United States has a legal tradition of separation of church and state, throughout its history it has been a predominantly Christian, mostly Protestant nation. Immigration has increased
The Rise of the New Second Generation
Coming of political age
Hurricane Katrina, a Construction Boom, and a New Labor Force
Punishing Immigrants
Race, Poverty, and Policy in the Wake of Disaster
The Civic Education Crusade
Growing Up Transnational
GROWING UP TRANSNATIONAL: IDENTITY AND KINSHIP IN A GLOBAL ERA." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(3), pp. 521–522
The Demilitarization of Thai American Marriage Migration, 1980–2000
In this study, we look at marriage migration patterns among Thai Americans using US Census data drawn from 5% PUMS sets made available through the IPUMS project. Marriage is one of the most important means of migration to the USA and the overwhelming majority of Thai Americans are foreign-born women married to non-Thai men. Therefore, the sources and nature of Thai marriages to non-Thai men constitute essential elements of contemporary Thai migra…
Brown in Baltimore
Little Saigons
Engineering the Competition
Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families
In this work, the authors use statistics from the U.S. Census to examine trends in intermarriage, racial and ethnic combinations, and categorizations among Asian Americans. Specifically, the authors want to consider the extent to which family patterns may contribute to Asian Americans and their descendants' continuing as distinct, becoming members of some new category or categories, or simply becoming White. Based on the data analysis and discuss…
Evacuation and Return of Vietnamese New Orleanians Affected by Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans East—where the main Vietnamese enclave is located— especially hard. By chance, shortly before this disaster, sociodemographic and health data had been collected for a population-based sample of working-age Vietnamese Americans living in New Orleans. One year after the storm, the authors reinterviewed nearly all respondents from the original sample who had returned to the area, which netted about two thirds of …
Reinforcing Polarizations
In recent years more legal immigrants have entered the United States through marriage than through any other means, while the desirability of current levels and types of immigration has been a matter of controversy. The United States has also been engaged in a heated public debate over the nature and definition of marriage for the past decade. The source of this debate has been the question of whether the legal status of marriage should be extend…
Military Brides and Refugees
Since the immigration legislation of 1965, marriage to American citizens and resident aliens has been one of the primary paths for migration to the United States. Despite the rapid growth of the Asian American population over the course of the late twentieth century, Asian Americans had still reached only 3 per cent of all Americans by 2000, meaning that Asian marriage migration to the United States has been largely through marriage to non‐Asians…
Sociology and the Crisis of the Present (2007 Presidential Address)
This essay attempts to take a broad view of the historical forces that have shaped the discipline of sociology and continue to shape it. It is organized around the concept of crisis, arguing that sociology has been produced by crises and that it has been defined by its responses to crises. It identifies an ethic of control and manipulation as a chief product of 19th century responses. It suggests that we have once again entered a period of disrup…
A Case Study of Teachers’ Perceptions of School Desegregation and the Redistribution of Social and Academic Capital
This case study gauges the perceptions of teachers to the “harm and benefit thesis” of Coleman’s social-capital hypothesis. The study uses data from one de facto segregated southern school system that hastily implemented a court order in 2000. The study collects the perceptions of teachers at five predominantly middle-class White schools that received 460 lower socioeconomic status African American students ordered bussed when their inner-city sc…
Mexican Roots, American Schools
Effects of Minority-Language Literacy on the Academic Achievement of Vietnamese Youths in New Orleans
This article identifies the major theoretical perspectives on nativelanguage literacy-forcible assimilation, reluctant bilingualism, and linguistic pluralism-and reports on a case study of the role of such literacy in the academic achievement of 387 Vietnamese high school students in New Orleans. The study found that literacy in Vietnamese is positively related to identification with the ethnic group and to academic achievement. The authors maint…
Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation
Min Zhou, Carl L. Bankston III, Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans, The International Migration Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, Special Issue: The New Second Generation (Winter, 1994), pp. 821-845
Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation
This article investigates some of the ways in which social capital made available in an immigrant community contributes to, rather than hinders, the adaptation of the younger generation, in school and afterward. We contrast the assimilationist view with alternative arguments on ethnic resources as social capital. Based on a case study of Vietnamese youth in an immigrant community in eastern New Orleans, we explore how aspects of an immigrant cult…
Social Capital as Process
In this study, we suggest that the difficulty in defining, locating, and measuring social capital is at core a philosophical confusion of language, and not just a consequence of excessively wide application. The term 'capital' refers to resources for investment. Financial capital consists of specific quantities of assets. Human capital, a metaphorical extension of financial capital, also consists of specific quantities of assets, in the form of s…
Family Pressure and the Educational Experience of the Daughters of Vietnamese Refugees
This article explores the issue of gender role changes encountered by young Vietnamese‐American women based on our ethnographic study of Versailles Village, a low‐income ethnic community in New Orleans, US. We examine how female Vietnamese high school students deal with conflicts between the stubborn traditionalism of parents and the desire for personal liberty of American‐reared children and how they negotiate gender roles at home and in school …
Being Well vs. Doing Well
It has frequently been suggested that the academic achievement of minority students may be hindered by low self-esteem in a white-dominated society. Some researchers and theorists, however, have questioned such assumptions. The self-esteem-academic achievement issue is further complicated by the relatively strong performance of children of immigrants in general, and of children of Asian immigrants in particular. A substantial literature suggests …
The social adjustment of Vietnamese American adolescents
The segmented-assimilation approach to immigrant adjustment suggests that the benefits of assimilation for immigrant youth depend on the segment of society into which they assimilate. The purpose of this article is to examine how young Vietnamese Americans may be affected by association with peers of major American racial groups and with Americanized coethnics. This research uses U.S. Census data to establish that racial groups surrounding a part…
The Ethnic Church, Ethnic Identifcation, and the Social Adjustment of Vietnamese Adolescents
Family Structure, Schoolmates, and Racial Inequalities in School Achievement
This study examines the influence of schoolmate family structure, racial concentration, and socioeconomic status on the academic achievement of individual African American and White students. The data are drawn from the 1990 test results of 18,000 10th graders who took the Louisiana Graduation Exit Examination. The study finds that being surrounded by schoolmates from female-headed families had the second largest negative association with the aca…
The model minority stereotype and the national identity question
A central issue in contemporary debates over immigration concerns how immigrants from diverse origins become integrated into their host nation. The children of Asian immigrants in the United States often give the impression of fitting neatly into American society and therefore into the American nation as a model minority. We argue, however, that such perception is a misleading overgeneralization and can bring about simplistic interpretations. The…
Social Capital, Cultural Values, Immigration, and Academic Achievement
ocial-capital explanations of school outcomes, particularly of the school outcomes of immigrant children and children of immigrants, have come into wide use in recent years. These explanations attempt to account for individual or group variations in school performance by viewing the family and community relations that surround children as forms of investments that yield payoffs in schools. These family and community relations are seen as specific…
The Academic Achievement of Vietnamese American Students
In this study, we investigate whether ethnicity, understood as a set of social relations among ethnic group members and not simply as a social category, may be seen as a source of unequal educational outcomes. We focus on Vietnamese youth in a particular U.S. community. Using data from an achievement test taken by public high school students in Louisiana, we investigate whether or not there are differences in test scores among Vietnamese, black a…
De Facto Congregationalism and Socioeconomic Mobility in Laotian and Vietnamese Immigrant Communities
Carl L. Bankston III, Min Zhou, De Facto Congregationalism and Socioeconomic Mobility in Laotian and Vietnamese Immigrant Communities: A Study of Religious Institutions and Economic Change, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jun., 2000), pp. 453-470
Valedictorians and delinquents
Vietnamese American young people have acquired two images in the eyes of the American public: achievers and delinquents. In this study, we present findings from qualitative and quantitative research that suggest that these stereotypes derive from the fact that Vietnamese American young people really are moving in two contrary directions in their adaptation to American society. Their ethnic communities encourage behaviors such as respect for elder…
Spectacles of Ethnicity
Drawing on the example of the Louisiana Cajuns, an ethnic group that has been enjoying a wave of popular revival in recent years, this study suggests that changes in the perception of an ethnic identity are related to socioeconomic transformation. We identify the festival as a key aspect of the Cajun revival since the 1960s. An examination of the history, activities, and contemporary spatiotemporal organization of festivals reveals similarities t…
Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility
In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic community. We then provide a quantitative analysis of socioeconomic mobility among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and other national-level data. We examine how this ethnic …
Asian American Religions
Rationality, Choice and the Religious Economy
Race, poverty, family structure, and the inequality of schools
This study examined how three major background characteristics of students—race, poverty, and family structure—can produce inequalities in school outcomes, as measured by standardized tests. It found that the percentage of students from families headed by single women is an extremely powerful predictor of levels of achievement in schools. Moreover, it indicates that neither racial composition nor percentage of students below poverty level can acc…
Ethnic self-identification and symbolic stereotyping
This article examines the process of ethnic self-identification. Utilizing data on Louisiana Cajuns, it proposes that contemporary Cajuns' self-image is rooted in stereotyped descriptions given by outsiders. Content analysis of popular depictions over two centuries shows the features and structure of the image to be quite stable despite considerable economic and social change. The meaning of the depiction, though, has evolved as those who conside…
The Silence of the Gators
This study considers the relationship between Cajun ethnicity and the intergenerational transmission of the French language. It questions the commonsensical assumption of a positive relationship between ethnic identity and language transmission. It suggests that if an ethnicity is associated with socioeconomic disadvantages, then the greater the ethnic identification of parents, the more disadvantageous for them ethnic traits will be. Therefore, …
Vietnamese ethnicity and adolescent substance abuse
This paper examines how membership in a highly concentrated Vietnamese‐American community affects the drug and alcohol use of Vietnamese‐American secondary school students. It suggests that research on adolescent substance abuse has had a tendency to concentrate on the family environment and the peer group. For this ethnic group, however, the present study finds that involvement in the ethnic community has a strong negative effect on drug and alc…
Hurricane Katrina, a Construction Boom, and a New Labor Force
Little Saigons
Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families
In this work, the authors use statistics from the U.S. Census to examine trends in intermarriage, racial and ethnic combinations, and categorizations among Asian Americans. Specifically, the authors want to consider the extent to which family patterns may contribute to Asian Americans and their descendants' continuing as distinct, becoming members of some new category or categories, or simply becoming White. Based on the data analysis and discuss…
Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation
Min Zhou, Carl L. Bankston III, Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans, The International Migration Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, Special Issue: The New Second Generation (Winter, 1994), pp. 821-845
Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation
This article investigates some of the ways in which social capital made available in an immigrant community contributes to, rather than hinders, the adaptation of the younger generation, in school and afterward. We contrast the assimilationist view with alternative arguments on ethnic resources as social capital. Based on a case study of Vietnamese youth in an immigrant community in eastern New Orleans, we explore how aspects of an immigrant cult…
Games and Language, Language and Games
Gender Roles and Scholastic Performance among Adolescent Vietnamese Women
A number of scholars have devoted attention to the advancing status of Vietnamese-American women, members of an ethnic group with strong patriarchal traditions in the home country. Their advances are usually interpreted as results of the increasing adoption of relatively egalitarian “American” rather than traditional “Vietnamese” perspectives on behavior appropriate to men and women. This article argues that in one important area of advancement, …
Wondrous Events
Journal Article Wondrous Events: Foundations of Religious Belief, by James McClenon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, 281 pp. $18.95 (pbk) Get access Carl L. Bankston, III Carl L. Bankston, III Loyola University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 4, Winter 1995, Pages 454–455, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712207 Published: 01 December 1995
Effects of Minority-Language Literacy on the Academic Achievement of Vietnamese Youths in New Orleans
This article identifies the major theoretical perspectives on nativelanguage literacy-forcible assimilation, reluctant bilingualism, and linguistic pluralism-and reports on a case study of the role of such literacy in the academic achievement of 387 Vietnamese high school students in New Orleans. The study found that literacy in Vietnamese is positively related to identification with the ethnic group and to academic achievement. The authors maint…
Vietnamese ethnicity and adolescent substance abuse
This paper examines how membership in a highly concentrated Vietnamese‐American community affects the drug and alcohol use of Vietnamese‐American secondary school students. It suggests that research on adolescent substance abuse has had a tendency to concentrate on the family environment and the peer group. For this ethnic group, however, the present study finds that involvement in the ethnic community has a strong negative effect on drug and alc…
Majority African American Schools and Social Injustice
Carl Bankston III, Stephen J. Caldas, Majority African American Schools and Social Injustice: The Influence of De Facto Segregation on Academic Achievement, Social Forces, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Dec., 1996), pp. 535-555
The Ethnic Church, Ethnic Identifcation, and the Social Adjustment of Vietnamese Adolescents
Science, Technology, and Society in the Third World
This reference source lists and summarizes nearly one thousand English-language articles and books published from the late 1970s to the early 1990s that treat the subject of science and technology in developing countries. These are organized by major topics, including appropriate technology, agriculture, technology transfer, innovation diffusion, environment and health, economics, education, research and development, politics, distribution of ben…
Academic achievement of Vietnamese American adolescents
This article investigates influences on academic achievement among Vietnamese American high school students. Theorists have offered a variety of explanations for Asian American academic success, and characteristics of individual families have received particular attention in many of these explanations. Here, it is argued that the academic success of Vietnamese American students may be understood as the product of “social capital,” or tightly inte…
Adolescents and deviance in a Vietnamese American community
This article uses qualitative data from fieldwork in a Vietnamese American community to identify sources of deviant group membership among Vietnamese American adolescents. It finds that the deviant group membership of these adolescents may be accounted for by a synthesis of three of the major theoretical explanations of deviant behavior. The primary source of deviant group membership among these young people is a failure to integrate them, throug…
Effect of School Population Socioeconomic Status on Individual Academic Achievement
The relationship between the socioeconomic status (SES) of peers and individual academic achievement was examined in this study. This question was investigated while a variety of sociodemographic factors were being controlled, including a student's own SES. Student SES was measured by using participation in the federal free/reduced–price lunch program as an indicator of poverty status, and parental educational and occupational background as a mea…
It is Always Now” - Sacred Time in Contemporary Native American Writing
The Academic Achievement of Vietnamese American Students
In this study, we investigate whether ethnicity, understood as a set of social relations among ethnic group members and not simply as a social category, may be seen as a source of unequal educational outcomes. We focus on Vietnamese youth in a particular U.S. community. Using data from an achievement test taken by public high school students in Louisiana, we investigate whether or not there are differences in test scores among Vietnamese, black a…
The social adjustment of Vietnamese American adolescents
The segmented-assimilation approach to immigrant adjustment suggests that the benefits of assimilation for immigrant youth depend on the segment of society into which they assimilate. The purpose of this article is to examine how young Vietnamese Americans may be affected by association with peers of major American racial groups and with Americanized coethnics. This research uses U.S. Census data to establish that racial groups surrounding a part…
Migrations and Cultures
Bayou lotus
This study suggests that understanding how religion promotes adaptation to social changes, such as immigrant resettlement, depends on viewing religion as a cultural institution that enables human beings to make sense of their environments. Religious beliefs solve problems of meaning in given social environments by expressing the essential facets of those environments as collective representations. Coping with change depends on maintaining continu…
Valedictorians and delinquents
Vietnamese American young people have acquired two images in the eyes of the American public: achievers and delinquents. In this study, we present findings from qualitative and quantitative research that suggest that these stereotypes derive from the fact that Vietnamese American young people really are moving in two contrary directions in their adaptation to American society. Their ethnic communities encourage behaviors such as respect for elder…
Growing Up American
Growing Up American tells the story of Vietnamese children and sheds light on why their often troubled passage into American society has thus far been successful. Drawing on research and insights from the U.S. census, survey data, and their own participant observation and in-depth interviews, Min Zhou and Carl Bankston focus on the Versailles Village enclave in New Orleans, one of many newly established Vietnamese communities in the United States…
The Socioeconomic Position of the Louisiana Creoles
This study suggests that the class-caste argument associated with the Wilson- Willie debate provides a fundamental line of division in theories of racial and ethnic stratification; it maintains that groups that combine minority statuses may be affected by both class and caste influences, a situation of "double jeopardy". and it describes French-speaking Louisiana blacks, or Creoles, as a group that combines minority statuses. Analysis of Census d…
The Silence of the Gators
This study considers the relationship between Cajun ethnicity and the intergenerational transmission of the French language. It questions the commonsensical assumption of a positive relationship between ethnic identity and language transmission. It suggests that if an ethnicity is associated with socioeconomic disadvantages, then the greater the ethnic identification of parents, the more disadvantageous for them ethnic traits will be. Therefore, …
The Children of Hobbes
This article suggests that the problem of social order remains a basic theoretical and practical issue for sociologists. It maintains that Dennis Wrong's discussion of this problem can help us conceptualize degrees of social order or disorder as emerging from patterns of social interactions. Given the increasing prevalence of single-parent families as an American social pattern, the article investigates the possibility that family structure may i…
Family Structure, Schoolmates, and Racial Inequalities in School Achievement
This study examines the influence of schoolmate family structure, racial concentration, and socioeconomic status on the academic achievement of individual African American and White students. The data are drawn from the 1990 test results of 18,000 10th graders who took the Louisiana Graduation Exit Examination. The study finds that being surrounded by schoolmates from female-headed families had the second largest negative association with the aca…
Sibling Cooperation and Scholastic Performance among Vietnamese-American Secondary School Students
This study examines why some Vietnamese American young people appear to be doing extraordinarily well in school American schools, and how relations within families are related to school achievement. It argues that sibling cooperation is significantly associated with Vietnamese academic achievement, and that cooperation among siblings should be understood as a product of ethnic normative expectations regarding family relations. The study employs e…
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