How Chinese Americans Use Religion to Frame Racial Injustice: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate

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dc.contributor.advisorEcklund, Elaine H
dc.creatorMabute-Louie, Bianca H
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-23T21:30:25Z
dc.date.available2022-11-01T05:01:10Z
dc.date.created2022-05
dc.date.issued2022-04-19
dc.date.submittedMay 2022
dc.date.updated2022-09-23T21:30:25Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines how religion connects to the racial attitudes of Chinese American evangelical Christians. With the growing prominence of evangelicalism among Chinese Americans, many of whom are immigrants and attend ethnic churches, there is a gap in understanding how immigrant and ethnic church contexts shape racial attitudes. Utilizing a multilingual and multigenerational Chinese evangelical Christian church as the site of study, this project interrogates how the increasing proportion of Chinese American evangelicals use religion to explain racial injustice and respond to racial justice movements. Drawing on in-depth interviews of 30 first- and second-generation Chinese American evangelicals from First Chinese Church of Houston (FCCH) conducted between August 2021 through February 2022, I find that Chinese American evangelicals combine dominant evangelical religious frames on race with distinct cultural values, transnational contexts, and experiences of racial discrimination to explain and respond to racial injustice through two major approaches: an anti-structural Confucian approach and a transnational structural approach. These approaches are not binary categories, but represent the dominant religio-cultural toolkits that respondents draw upon to explain and respond to racial injustice. At times, Chinese American evangelicals employ mixed explanatory modes from both approaches. The findings reveal the ongoing salience of race, ethnicity, and the immigrant ethnic church in shaping the racial attitudes of first- and second-generation Chinese American evangelicals. This project bridges the literature on race and immigration, while moving the scholarship on race and religion beyond the Black and White binary.
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dc.identifier.citationMabute-Louie, Bianca H. "How Chinese Americans Use Religion to Frame Racial Injustice: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate." (2022) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113336">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113336</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/113336
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectimmigration
dc.subjectreligion
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectsocial movements
dc.subjectAsian Americans
dc.titleHow Chinese Americans Use Religion to Frame Racial Injustice: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialText
thesis.degree.departmentSociology
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciences
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts
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