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As the Leaves Turn Gold focuses on the experiences of aging among women and men of Asian origin-both immigrants and citizens-in the contemporary U.S. Drawing on interviews and survey data, the book discusses the experiences of different groups of Asian Americans to analyze how ideologies, interactions, and institutional arrangements shape racialized, gendered, and classed aging in contemporary America

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Racial Boundaries and Ethnic Binds -- 3. Maintaining Meaningful Connections -- 4. Constructing Ethnic Boundaries: Negotiations and Conflicts over Gender, Religion, Race, and Nationality -- 5. Ethnic Practices, Cultural Consumption -- 6. Sifting Through "Traditions" -- 7. Bridges and Chasms -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

The global COVID-related pandemic ushered in high death rates globally, initiated lockdowns of international boundaries and internal borders in countries and regions, and abruptly mandated home-based work for a large swath of professions. This paper focuses on disruptions and dislocations associated with the pandemic to discuss the structures of inequality revealed during this period. I emphasise that the meanings of education, its organisational structures, the tools and sites associated with this work were already changing; the pandemic provided the window to significantly enhance the pace and depth of the shifts.

In a 2020 U.S. survey, more Asian Indians than Chinese indicated that they were worried about post‐Covid‐19 hate crimes. Yet, post‐Covid violence against people of Asian background has been viewed as being directed against "Chinese‐looking" individuals. This is just one example of how South Asians are overlooked in discourses about Asian Americans. This theoretical paper provides an expansion of the racial formation framework to explain this exclusion. We demonstrate how global factors, including the foreign engagements of the United States shaped the development of the Asian American group and category, and why, even though Asian Americans can be brown, yellow, white, or black, an East Asian phenotype is viewed as denoting an "Asian" body in the United States. We also discuss how the racialization of religion shapes anti‐South Asian racism, a factor largely ignored in the literature on racial formation and Asian Americans. We end by calling for the inclusion of South Asians in Asian American literature to challenge many of the reigning paradigms regarding Asian America and anti‐Asian racism.

The origins and chronology of linking research and action are complex and cannot be attributed to any single discipline or any part of the world. People within and outside academe have linked research and action. In this introductory article, we begin by briefly tracing the methodological background to linking research and action, focusing particularly on action research, participatory research, and feminist research in order to situate the research presented in this monograph issue of Current Sociology. We then provide an outline of the articles that showcase through specific case studies how sociologists link research and practice in diverse contexts including health, culture, education, labor, migration, violence against women, and polling. We end by commenting that linking research and action has important implications for knowledge creation, distribution, shifting power relations for achieving social change, and, ultimately, challenging social structures for social justice.