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Jane Hong (@janehfromjersey on Threads)
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US historian: migration, race, religion. @Harvard PhD. 2nd 📚: How post-1965 Asian im/migrants changed US #evangelicalism @OUPAcademic. @janehongphd at B*uesky.
Apr 12, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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
Aug 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
@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.
Aug 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Mar 31, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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
Jan 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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
May 21, 2021 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
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
Jan 29, 2021 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
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
Dec 4, 2020 • 14 tweets • 11 min read
1/ How it started // How it's going

I got a book contract w/@OUPAcademic! 2/ Perhaps fitting since #AARSBL2020 is happening now, I have many #amrel & #APARRI folks to thank for making this book seem possible.

Because hot tip: It’s not easy to do a 2nd book so different from your 1st. In at least one different subfield. About a different time period.