Cnle.net is the personal blog of an Asian American sociology professor
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C.N. Le :: The Man, The Myth, the Blog
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Teaching undergraduate courses and in Sociology and Asian American Studies; continuing my research on Asian American assimilation patterns; trying to publish academic papers and secure research grants.
Racial/ethnic assimilation is more than just cultural -- socioeconomic attainment is just as essential in measuring the extent to which a group is integrated into the major social institutions of society. This analysis uses 2000 Census data and a multi-level perspective that focuses individual and group-level characteristics, historical contexts, and social institutions to compare four categories of assimilation outcomes among five APA ethnic groups, with a particular focus on Vietnamese Americans: marital (having an endogamous, White, or pan-Asian spouse); entrepreneurial (being self-employed), socioeconomic (income, high skill occupation, and SEI score), and finally, spatial/residential (homeownership, suburbanization, and residential segregation).
Currently, the bulk of my research involves using Census data to describe and analyze multiple outcomes of assimilation among Asian Americans. I am working on articles for publication in academic journals that examine (1) self-employment/entrepreneurship among different Asian Americans groups and that also tests major theories of why they start their own businesses; (2) marital assimilation and intermarriage among different Asian American groups and the individual-, group-, and structural-level factors that influence the likelihood that Asian husbands and wives have an endogamous (same ethnicity), White, or pan-Asian (Asian of a different ethnicity) spouse.
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