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Carl L. Bankston III (born August 8, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American sociologist and author. He is best known for his work on immigration to the United States, particularly on the adaptation of Vietnamese American immigrants, and for his work on ethnicity, social capital and the sociology of education. August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ...
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The Statue of Liberty was a common sight to many immigrants who entered the United States through Ellis Island Immigration to the United States of America is the act of immigrating, or moving, to territory within the United States culture and government. ...
A Vietnamese American is a resident of the United States who is of ethnic Vietnamese descent. ...
Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ...
This article or section should be merged with ethnic group Ethnicity is the cultural characteristics that connect a particular group or groups of people to each other. ...
Social capital is defined as the value that is created through the application of social networks during non-organizational time. ...
Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ...
Bankston grew up in the New Orleans area. He earned a B.S. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 1975 and then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended graduate classes at San Francisco State University and enrolled in the M.A./Ph.D. program in history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. He left after finishing the M.A. in 1981 and spent the next two years traveling and working at a variety of jobs. Southern Methodist University (also known as SMU) is a private, coeducational Methodist-affiliated university in University Park, Texas, (an enclave of Dallas). ...
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He entered the Peace Corps in 1983 and went to Thailand, where he taught English. Immediately after returning from Thailand, in the Spring of 1985, he took a position as a supervisor of teachers at the Philippine Refugee Processing Center on the Bataan Peninsula. There, he helped to prepare refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos for resettlement in the United States. Peace Corps volunteers usually serve for two years. ...
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At the end of 1989, Bankston returned to Louisiana from the Philippines. For a few months, he taught Vietnamese American refugees in New Orleans. He began working on a Ph.D. in sociology at Louisiana State University in the Fall of 1990. He finished his degree in 1995 and became an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. In 1999, he became assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University. He became an associate professor at Tulane in 2002 and a full professor in 2003. Official language(s) English and French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans at last census; probably Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina Area Ranked 31st - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 16 - Latitude 29°N to 33...
A Vietnamese American is a resident of the United States who is of ethnic Vietnamese descent. ...
New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...
University of Louisiana at Lafayette is also known as UL Lafayette. ...
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
Bankston became co-director of Tulane’s Asian Studies Program in 2002. He served as vice chair of Tulane’s Department of Sociology from 2001 to 2003 and as director of Graduate Studies in Sociology from 2003 to 2005.
He has been active in a number of professional organizations, including the American Sociological Association, the Southern Sociological Society, and the Mid-South Sociological Association. He served as vice-president of the Mid-South Sociological Association in from 2003 to 2004. He was elected to serve as program chair and president-elect of the Mid-South Sociological Association in 2006. The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions. ...
Bankston has given numerous interviews on sociological issues through radio, television, and print media. During the Spring of 2006, he gave a series of lectures on American sociological approaches to immigration at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (or School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, also known as EHESS) is a French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement within the system of Grandes Écoles. ...
Awards
- Bankston’s second book, Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, co-authored with Min Zhou, was widely recognized as one of the most important works on American immigration of the late 1990s. The International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association gave it the Thomas and Znaniecki Award for outstanding book on migration in 1999. In 2000, the book received the Distinguished Book Award of the Mid-South Sociological Association.
- His 2002 book, A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana, co-authored by Stephen J. Caldas, won the 2003 Annual Literary Award of the Louisiana Library Association for best book on Louisiana published in 2002. The book was also featured at the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge in 2003 and it was the subject of an “author meets critics” session of the Southwestern Social Sciences Association in San Antonio in 2003.
- Another book published in 2002, Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity, won the 2005 Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book
- He has also received recognition for his presented and published work. He won the 1999 award for outstanding paper from the Louisiana Education Research Association and the 2001 Award for outstanding paper from the Southwest Education Research Association. His article, Bayou Lotus: Theravada Buddhism in Southwestern Louisiana received the award for outstanding published article of 2000 from the journal Sociological Spectrum.
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Bibliography
Books as Author - Science, Technology, and Society in the Third World by Wesley Shrum, Carl L. Bankston III, and D. Stephen Voss (1995).
- Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States by Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III (1998)
- Straddling Two Social Worlds: The Experience of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States by Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III (2000)
- A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana by Carl L. Bankston III and Stephen J. Caldas (2002).
- Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity by Jacques M. Henry and Carl L. Bankston III (2002).
- Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation by Stephen J. Caldas and Carl L. Bankston III (2005).
Books as Editor - "Encyclopedia of Family Life" (5 vols.) edited by Carl L. Bankston III and R. Kent Rasmussen (1998)
- "Racial and Ethnic Relations (3 vols.) edited by Carl L. Bankston III and others (1999)
- "Sociology Basics" (2 vols.) edited by Carl L. Bankston III (2000)
- "The End of Desegregation?" edited by Stephen J. Caldas and Carl L. Bankston III (2003)
- "World Conflicts: Asia and the Middle East" edited by Carl L. Bankston III (2003)
- "African American History" edited by Carl L. Bankston III (2003)
- "Immigration in U.S. History" edited by Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (2006)
See also Vietnamese Americans Laotian Americans Hmong Americans Theravada Desegregation Sociology American Sociological Association Mid-South Sociological Association Achievement gap Social Capital Cajun A Vietnamese American is a resident of the United States who is of ethnic Vietnamese descent. ...
Theravada (Pali; Sanskrit: Sthaviravada) is one of the eighteen (or twenty) NikÄya schools that formed early in the history of Buddhism. ...
Desegregation is the process of ending racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. ...
Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ...
The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions. ...
The term achievement gap refers to the observed disparity on a number of educational measures between the performance of groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. ...
Social capital is defined as the value that is created through the application of social networks during non-organizational time. ...
This article is about an ethnic culture. ...
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