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@janehongphd
Apr 12 • 8 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
On a diff note, there's a reason why Steven Yeun grew up evangelical, John Cho's dad was a pastor, & I was in a worship band w/Lee Isaac Chung in college. It's v hard to understand Korean imm & Korean Americans w/o (Protestant) Christianity. Some context for #BEEFNetflix viewers:
More than 40% of Asian Americans (AA) identify as Christian & a significant % of these as evangelical or born-again Prot. For Koreans, it's >60% Christian. Koreans also make up >1/3 of all AA evangelicals (Jerry Z Park, 2021 & @pewresearch). They're a big part of my current book. ImageImage
Even if you’re not religious, it’s hard to escape the reach of Korean churches as community centers. Sociologist Pyong Gap Min explores this. And there's literally whole books about Korean (& Asian) American college students in evangelical campus fellowships like InterVarsity. ImageImage
Today Korean American (men) dominate the leadership of some of America's most storied historically white evangelical organizations. NAE, Lausanne, Westminster CA & more. For many, the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) denomination was the pathway. christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/qu…
Presbyterianism has a long, influential history in Korea via white Amer missionaries & indigenous Korean leaders (tinyurl.com/48k44wmh). During the Cold War, @helenjinkim shows how US & South Koreans forged a transpacific evangelicalism thru World Vision, BGEA, & CCC Korea
Today Korean-language presbyteries make up 10%+ of the PCA (est. 1973) and PC(USA) denominations. I write about the partnerships that allowed this to happen in my book. This history helps explain why so many Korean Americans are Presbyterian of some kind
I could go on but I'll stop. Folks have been asking about my work. My book focuses on evangelical institutions & politics. I presented an overview last month at @TheHuntington, including more on why Asian American evangelicals need study (starts at 21:00)
To clarify, my study of Asian American evangelicals is (trans)national, not just about California or the West Coast. I'm from Jersey & grew up around PTS, Gordon-Conwell, Westminster, Nyack. CA is important but there's a whole world outside LA/OC/SFBay key to shaping this history

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Aug 20, 2022
@larissalam @ChairmanKao @snarkylicious @NickCho @FarEastDeepSo I think many scholars would say it's more complicated, esp. viewed thru the lens of racial capitalism. The 1st part of @catjonathantran's Asian Americans & the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (Oxford, 2021), which I cite in my talk, is worth reading on this (pgs. 84, 90-91)
@larissalam The last excerpt is esp. relevant, I think. Here Tran builds on the work of historians & others on MS Delta Chinese & draws parallels with 1992 etc. In both cases, while Chinese & Koreans do not create the structures of exploitation, they can in these contexts benefit from them.
@larissalam I think it's very hard to reconcile personal & structural. That’s why I find writing about 1992 so challenging. In 1979, my Korean parents seized what opportunities were open to them despite language barriers, racism, and their own exploitation in the NYC labor market ...
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Aug 19, 2022
Someday I'd like to write more about studying 1992 Los Angeles as the child of Korean immigrants whose parents opened a store in (then majority-Black) Brooklyn Heights 1979. What if your family’s livelihood was also a site of oppression for others in racial capitalist systems?
And what if the challenges of working 16-18 hour days, 7 days a week contributed to the end of your parents' marriage & exacerbated your father's cancer leading to an early death?

My financial ties to the store ended in 1986, when my father died & the store passed to my uncle.
As I say in this @ptseminary talk, I don’t know how to summarize the store's significance to my parents’ story & to the livelihoods of my entire extended family on my father’s side from the 1980s thru today.
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Mar 31, 2022
My new article in the Journal of Asian American Studies foregrounds Protestant orgs & ppl in the Asian American Movement (AAM) of 1968-1970s. The AAM birthed the field of @AAAStudies thru ethnic studies strikes at SFSU, Cal, & sites across the US & Hawai'i muse.jhu.edu/journal/86
At a time when Asian Am were being pitted against Black Amer, AAM activists rejected model minority tropes & embraced multiracial & transnational solidarity w/other BIPOC. They opposed US wars in Asia & marched w/3rd World Lib Front for ethnic studies. Religious folks included. Image
I explore how Asian Amer (AA) Christians made sense of their ethnic/racial identity & religious faith, & fought for societal justice (& evangelized) at a time before the Moral Majority & rise of the Christian Right. It wasn't a golden moment, but there were greater possibilities.
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Jan 24, 2022
As someone who grew up in NJ public schools & taught there after college, I cannot stress enough how big a deal this is. Organizers worked a miracle.

I'm late to the party, but before moving on, here are a few moments from NJ's Asian Amer history I wish ppl knew more about. 1/
For context, NJ has v large AA pop, thanks to post-1965 imm & spillover from NYC/Philly. My parents were typical. They came to Brooklyn from Seoul in 1975, opened a store, and settled in Bergen County, NJ. Today NJ has the US' 3rd largest Korean Am pop 2/ tinyurl.com/2p93vnvh
Then there’s Edison, NJ. I spent a month in Delhi for my 1st book. When anyone asked where I was from, I would say “NJ, near Edison” & ppl knew exactly what I meant. The city, 40% Asian Amer, just swore in its 1st Indian American mayor, 32 yo Sam Joshi. 3/ tinyurl.com/yckhnwnb
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May 21, 2021
Billy Graham was a steady presence in my Korean immigrant household growing up. He was a clear example of white evangelicalism impinging on my family beyond our Korean imm. church (others: Hosanna & Vineyard music, Focus on the Family). 1/n #BillyGrahamPBS tinyurl.com/mwpev8xe
I vividly recall sitting on ice-cold bleachers & hard concrete at BGEA crusades at Shea (RIP) & Giant Stadiums with my mom. Graham’s 1952 book “Peace with God” sat on our family bookshelf my entire childhood. By age 18, I'd read it a half dozen times or more. 2/n #BillyGrahamPBS
That's probably why I found #BillyGrahamPBS so hard to watch. In clips of 1950s Graham, his similarity w/recent televangelist hucksters so disturbed me I actually turned the TV off. It's one thing to read about his early career. It’s another thing to watch Graham firsthand. 3/n
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Jan 29, 2021
Topics covered so far re the Jan 6th insurrection: white Christian nationalism, ppl carrying Israeli flags & wearing "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirts, Christian Zionism - @sarahposner, toxic masculinity, Ashley Babbitt & role of white women - @AntheaButler #capitolsiegereligion
.@AntheaButler: don't overlook the "small events" & threat of everyday violence; @sarahposner: the fight over history textbooks in public schools & narratives of white Christian innocence; @ndrewwhitehead: parallels w/1898 Wilmington massacre when a white mob attacks biracial gov
How to teach these topics to undergrad classes: @AntheaButler: know your class - meet students where they are; "it's not about feelings, it's about facts"; understand disinformation; "if you don't know what the history is, you can't understand Jan 6th" #capitolsiegereligion
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