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Sociological Images

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American sociologists have been reading Sociological Images for years now, but I think it’s about time for this blog to go big worldwide. The blog, run by a group of US academics, offers sociological commentary on photographs, illustrations, videos, and charts in simple language. The blog is particularly strong when it comes to gender and family issues, but they post on race and ethnicity on a regular basis as well.

Here are some of the best Sociological Images posts on Asia and Asian America.

Asian femininity and the male gaze

Racism and exclusion

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Flat3 – the Kiwi Asian Awkward Black Girl?

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Angry Asian Man just posted about Flat3, a new webseries about three young New Zealand Chinese women living together after university. They’re all struggling to find their way in life, and are confronted with mansplaining and casual racism every step of the way. It reminds me a lot of Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, in that much of the humor comes from confronting stereotypes, but with the comedic set-up of New Girl and the sexual tension of The Outs. I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with next!


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Desi connections in the US and Canada

Photo: Rabblefish (Flickr/Creative Commons).

Photo: Rabblefish (Flickr/Creative Commons).

Two very sad news articles involving South Asians in the US and Canada caught my attention this evening. A woman in New York City allegedly pushed an Indian immigrant man off of a train platform and onto the tracks, where he was crushed by an oncoming train. The woman told police:

“I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.”

She was arrested and charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime.

On Twitter, Piali Roy said that this incident reminded her of an incident from Toronto in the 1970s, when a South Asian man was pushed in front of an oncoming train there. This coincided with a rise in “Paki-bashing” when the arrival of South Asians expelled from Uganda made all South Asians more visible in the city:

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