Writers Series with Bianca Mabute-Louie

<p>Bianca Mabute-Louie is a Sociology PhD candidate at Rice University, where she researches the intersections of race, religion, and politics. She is published in top academic journals, including Social Forces, Socius, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Sociology of Religion, as well as in public outlets like LA Times and Elle Magazine. </p><p><br></p><p>Bianca is the author of Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century. In this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca transforms the ways we understand race, class, American respectability, and the concept of assimilation and its impact on Asian American communities from the nineteenth century to present day.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://biancaml.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Bianca website</a></p><p><a href="https://www.leahkim.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Leah website</a></p>