Carl L. Bankston

Carl L. Bankston

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.

Life

Bankston grew up in the New Orleans area. He earned a B.S. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas at the end of 1974 or the beginning of 1975 and then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed an M.A. in history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 or 1981.

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.

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.

Bankston became co-director of Tulane’s [http://www.tulane.edu/~asia/ Asian Studies Program] in 2002. He became chair of Tulane’s [http://www.tulane.edu/~sociol/ Department of Sociology] in 2006.

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 president of the Mid-South Sociological Association for the year 2007.

Awards

*Bankston’s second book, "", 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.
* Carl won another award for a book published with Stephen J. Caldas, the 2007 Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award for "Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation" (Praeger, 2005).
*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.

Bibliography

Books as Author

* [http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0810828715 "Science, Technology, and Society in the Third World "] by Wesley Shrum, Carl L. Bankston III, and D. Stephen Voss (1995).
* [http://www.russellsage.org/publications/books/0-87154-994-8 " Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States "] by Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III (1998)
* [http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/eric_archive/mono/UDS111.pdf "Straddling Two Social Worlds: The Experience of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States] " by Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III (2000)
* [http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/bookdetail.asp?book_id=3850 "A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana] by Carl L. Bankston III and Stephen J. Caldas (2002).
* [http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C7817.aspx "Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity "] by Jacques M. Henry and Carl L. Bankston III (2002).
* [http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C8693.aspx "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). ISBN 0-89356-940-2.
* [https://salempress.com/store/samples/racial_and_ethnic_relations/racial_and_ethnic_relations.htm "Racial and Ethnic Relations"] (3 vols.) edited by Carl L. Bankston III and others (1999)
* [https://salempress.com/store/samples/sociology_basics/sociology_basics.htm "Sociology Basics"] (2 vols.) edited by Carl L. Bankston III (2000)
* [https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1245 "The End of Desegregation?"] edited by Stephen J. Caldas and Carl L. Bankston III (2003)
* [https://salempress.com/store/samples/world_conflicts_asia/world_conflicts_asia.htm "World Conflicts: Asia and the Middle East"] edited by Carl L. Bankston III (2003)
* [https://salempress.com/store/samples/african_american_history/african_american_history.htm "African American History"] edited by Carl L. Bankston III (2003)
* [https://salempress.com/Store/samples/us_immigration_history/us_immigration_naturalization.htm "Immigration in U.S. History"] edited by Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (2006)

ee also

*Vietnamese Americans
*Laotian Americans
*Hmong Americans
*Theravada
*Desegregation
*Sociology
*American Sociological Association
*Achievement gap
*Social Capital
*Cajun

External links

* [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/v002/2.1br_zhou.html Review of " Growing Up American "] from " Journal of Asian American Studies "
* [http://www.spencer.org/publications/conferences/Sociology/read_list.htm Spencer Foundation Conference on Sociology and Education Reading List]
* [http://ccet.louisiana.edu/03a_Cultural_Tourism_Files/01.02_The_People/Laotian.html The Laotian Population of Louisiana]
* [http://www.tolerance.org/teach/web/vietnamese/history.jsp Vietnamese Americans: A Brief History]
* [http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Sr-Z/Vietnamese-Americans.html Vietnamese Americans]
* [http://www.midsouthsoc.org Mid-South Sociological Association]
* [http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-4/student.htm The Biculturation of the Vietnamese Student]
* [http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/bankston.htm Bayou Lotus: Theravada Buddhism in Southwestern Louisiana]
* [http://www.profam.org/pub/nr/nr_1612.htm The Howard Center Summaries of Recent Social Research]
* [http://www.here-now.org/shows/2005/09/20050919_9.asp Radio Interview on Segregation of New Orleans Students Displaced by Katrina]
* [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/DUSS_hispchall_rev.pdf The Hispanic Challenge] from The Wilson Center
* [http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/workingpaper06/paper12/working_paper06-12.pdf Can Social Capital Explain Persistent Poverty Gaps?] from the National Poverty Center


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