Christina B. Chin
MA Sociology, UCLA, 2004
BA Sociology and Psychology, UC Davis, 2001
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
cbchin@ucla.edu
Subfield
Youth Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Sociology, Ethnic Communities, Qualitative Methods
Research Interests
Dissertation topic: My current research uses ethnographic methods to explore the history and cultural significance of Japanese American basketball leagues in southern California. In particular, it examines the cultural meaning players give to participating in basketball leagues and how their experiences in these youth leagues have shaped their lives and understandings as racial/ethnic and gendered individuals.
MA Thesis: Marginal Spaces, Identity, and Rave Culture – An Ethnographic Study on Marginal Youth and Raves
Publications
Chin, Christina, Meera Deo, Jenny Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Wang Yuen. 2007 “Lights, Camera, and Little Action: Cultural Representations of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in Prime Time Television.” Social Justice 34:3.
Chin, Christina, Noriko Milman, Meera Deo, Jenny Lee, and Nancy Wang Yuen. 2007. "Without a Trace: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Prime Time Television," Chapter 24 in Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader, edited by Min Zhou and J.V. Gatewood. New York: New York University Press.
Chin, Christina, Meera Deo, Jenny Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Wang Yuen. “Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time.” Washington D.C.: Asian American Justice Center.
Available for download at http://www.advancingequality.org/files/aajc_tv_06.pdf
Yuen, Nancy, Christina Chin, Meera Deo, Jenny Lee, and Noriko Milman. 2005. “Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Lights, Camera, and Little Action.” Washington D.C.: National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium.
Available for download at http://www.advancingequality.org/files/NAPALC_report_final.pdf
Grants and Awards
Research Grant, Asian American Justice Center (2005)
Research Grant, UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations (2005-06)
Research Grant, National Asian Pacific Legal Consortium (2004)
UCLA Summer Research Mentorship (2003)
UCLA Teaching Assistantship (2003-05)
Advisors
Dr. Min Zhou
Conference Presentations
“Creating Authenticity – An Ethnographic Study of Youth and Rave Culture,” presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hollywood, CA 4/2006.
“The Asian Pacific Islander American Prime Time Television Report: The Fall 2005 Season,” presented at the Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 3/2006.
“Rave New World: Observations in the Initiation Process and Social Interaction within the Northern California Raving Scene” presented at the Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA 5/2003.
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