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share significant overlap in members. It is Spring / Summer From the too time consuming to hand out all 2014 Asian Modeawards at the reception, when people Section hope to mingle with colleagues and friends. I’m also happy to note that our Inside this Issue Chair reception is co-sponsored by the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies and Routledge. From the Section Chair It is with great pleasure that I share the latest information about our section and Routledge will be running a small 1 critical updates, including section sessions competition during the joint reception on Your Section Officers at the upcoming ASA conference in San August 18. Reception attendees may drop 2 Francisco, a new mentoring session at the their email addresses into a tombola for a conference, a co-hosted reception, and chance to win a Routledge book (choice 2014 Section newly-elected officers. from books available at the Routledge 2 Election Results stand). These email addresses will be used Our Section day is Monday, August 18. to encourage members to sign up for 2014 Section This year in particular it promises to be a email table-of-contents alerts for Ethnic Award Winners 2 full, dynamic day. In line with the and Racial Studies and Identities. conference theme, we will have two Section Activities at the In addition to all this, our section is 2014 ASA Meeting in section panels: Work, Labor and 4 excited to host a mentoring session on San Francisco Inequality in Asia, and Work Labor and August 18th as well. At last year’s Selected Opportunities Inequality in Asian America. This year’s panels draw attention to our commitment business meeting, attendees requested 6 to scholarship on both fields. In addition, more in-person mentoring opportunities. Notes on chair-elect Sharmila Rudrappa has Mentors will be on hand to discuss topics 9 Section Members organized our section roundtables. This is that include, but are not limited to, in addition to the regular session panel on publishing, getting a job, pursuing tenure, Asia and Asian America, on Sunday teaching, work/family balance, and August 17th. promotion to full. Please come to learn, share, or just to socialize. Food will be Our business meeting will have a served, courtesy of the section! Please different agenda than normal. This year RSVP to me at [email protected] we will be giving out our section awards by July 25th. About Asian Mode at the business meeting, rather than at the reception. As usual, the business meeting To help navigate these events, here is a Asian Mode is the newsletter of the will also be an important opportunity to list of them all in chronological order Section on Asia and Asian America of learn about the health the section as well (places included if known): the American Sociological Association as to voice suggestions for future and is edited by C.N. Le, Section directions, which we take seriously. I Sunday, August 17th: Secretary/Treasurer, Department of strongly encourage people to attend this • Regular Session. “Asians and Asian Sociology, University of year’s members meeting. Americans,” 2:30 to 4:10pm. Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003; [email protected]; Phone: We are celebrating our award winners at Monday, August 18th: 413-545-4074; Fax: 413-545-3204. the members meeting this year because, • Section Session: “Work, Labor, and Learn more about the section at I’m excited to announce, our section Inequality in Asian America,” 8:30- http://www.asanet.org/sectionasiaa reception will be co-hosted with the 10:10am. ndasianamerica/asia.cfm. International Migration (IM) section. Time and location is below. Both sections • Section Roundtables, 10:30-11:30am. Spring / Summer 2014 Pawan Dhingra • Section Members Meeting and Award Professor and Chair of Sociology Council Members: Ceremony: 11:30-12:10pm (same room as Tufts University Jun Xu, Ball State University Roundtables) Wei-hsin Yu, University of Texas, Austin • Section Mentoring Opportunity: Kusina Ni Tess Restaurant, 237 Ellis St, Your Section Student Representative: Vivian Shaw, San Francisco, CA 94102 (very close to University of Texas, Austin the Hilton San Francisco), 2-4pm. Officers Chair: Pawan Dhingra, Tufts University • Section Session: “Work, Labor, and Inequality in Asia,” 4:30-6:10pm. Past-Chair: Lynn Fujiwara, University of 2014 Section Oregon • Section Reception (co-hosted with Award Winners International Migration Section): Jones Chair-Elect: Sharmila Rudrappa, Bar and Lounge (620 Jones St.), 6:30- University of Texas, Austin Congratulations to all the award 9pm. winners and honorees! Secretary-Treasurer: C.N. Le, I also am excited to announce our new University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2014 Book Award Winner section officers, each of whom brings an (Asian American Studies): impressive set of skills and reputation. Council Members: Thank you to all those who ran for office. Anna Guevarra, University of Illinois, Wendy Cheng. The Changs Next Door This service is critical to the future of Chicago to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban section. Chair-Elect (2014-15) is Dina California. University of Minnesota Prema Kurien, Syracuse University Okamoto (Indiana University); new Press. Council members (3 year term begins Yingyi Ma, Syracuse University 2014) are Jun Xu (Ball State University) Wendy Cheng’s The Changs Next Door to Anthony Ocampo, Cal Poly Pomona and Wei-hsin Yu (University of Texas at the Diazes is an incredibly rich analysis Austin), and our new Student Jane H. Yamashiro, University of of how immigration is changing the representative (2014-2015) is Vivian Shaw Southern California state of race relations in America. (University of Texas at Austin). Leslie Wang, University of Massachusetts, Based in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Boston Valley, a region home to historical I want to thank outgoing council Asian and Latino immigrant members for their inspiring service! At communities, Cheng’s analysis expands Student Representative: the end of the conference, Dr. Sharmila previous frameworks on race by Omi Elena Shih, University of California, Los Rudrappa takes over as chair of the and Winant (1994) and posits the Angeles section. It is has been a sincere pleasure concept of regional racial formation. to serve as chair of this section, one that I Here, she articulates the central role of find intellectually stimulating and space in how Asian Americans and necessary. My last point, and at the risk of Latinos come to conceptualize their sounding like a broken record, is that we 2014 Section racial identities. must work continue to keep up and Election Results increase our membership. Thank you for Award Committee: this opportunity, and I hope to see many Congratulations to the new Anthony Ocampo and Rick Baldoz of you in San Francisco. section officers! Best Regards, Chair-Elect: Dina Okamoto, Indiana University (2014-2015) 2 . ASIAN MODE 2014 Book Award Winner Asianness to include what she calls Catherine’s paper is an ethnography of (Asia / Transnational): pan-Asian modernity. While there is the “circuits of reproductive labor” much literature discussing how women that connect Chinese migrant sex Kristin Surak. Making Tea, Making embody national identity, this article workers in Macao. The paper was Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice. does it in a unique way, showing that it nominated by Hae Yeon Choo, who Stanford University Press. is not merely imposed but can be writes that “this article contributes to chosen in a variety of ways. the sociology of Asia and Asian Through exhaustive descriptions that America, as it highlights the complex speak to her brilliance as an Anthony Ocampo (Cal Poly Pomona): interplay of gender, class, and political ethnographer, she details how the 2013. “Are Second Generation economy in contemporary Asia by nation is concretized in movement, Filipinos ‘Becoming’ Asian American firmly situating the meanings and bodily gestures, and postures. Over 20 or Latino? Historical Colonialism, practices of sex work within the moral months of participation in several tea Culture, and Panethnic Identity.” Ethnic and material landscape based on ceremony classes, observations of and Racial Studies. Chinese migrant women’s lived demonstrations and displays of the tea experiences.” ceremony for tourists, perusing Anthony’s article examines how archives, and building on language second-generation Filipino Americans Wasudha Bhatt (Ph.D. Candidate, skills and familiarity with Japan, understand their panethnic identities in University of Texas, Austin) “The Professor Surak examines the quotidian light of their connections to both Asian Little Brown Woman: Gender ways by which nationhood is Americans and Latinos. Drawing on Discrimination in American Medicine” instantiated into being. The committee interviews with 50 Filipino adults in sees Making Tea, Making Japan as a Los Angeles and two large-scale Wasudha’s paper draws on more than crucial contribution to Asia/ Asian surveys of the immigrant second one hundred interviews with Indian American studies, the sociology of generation, he argues that many physicians – both first and second culture, and political sociology. Filipinos invoke their colonial history generation-- to examine how to explain their social distance from race/ethnicity, gender, and nationality Award Committee: East Asians and to blur boundaries shape the experiences of Indian Sharmila Rudrappa and Leslie Wang with Latinos. This article is a major physicians in the United States, and challenge and contribution to studies how in the environments of racially