Carl L. Bankston III

CARL L. BANKSTON III is professor and chair in the Department of Sociology and co-director of the Asian Studies Program at Tulane University. His previous books include Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (with Min Zhou, 1998), A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana (with Stephen J. Caldas, 2002); Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity (with Jacques Henry, 2002); and Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation (with Stephen J. Caldas, 2005). He has also published over 100 scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and law review articles on topics in education, immigration, religion, family, economics, and social history.