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Recent work by Min Zhou receives honorable mentionUCLA Professor of Sociology Min Zhou. (Photo: Peggy McInerny/ UCLA.)

Recent work by Min Zhou receives honorable mention

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The UCLA sociologist's latest book, "The Asian American Achievement Paradox," co-authored with Jennifer Lee, received an honorable mention from the fourth section of the American Sociological Association to recognize the work.


UCLA International Institute, June 18, 2018 —  "The Asian American Achievement Paradox" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015), co-authored by Min Zhou, director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center and professor of sociology at UCLA, and Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at Columbia University, received an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Book Award by the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

The book has already received multiple awards, including the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in the Social Sciences, the 2016 Book Award of the ASA’s Asia and Asian America Section, the 2016 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Outstanding Book of the ASA’s Sociology of Education Section and the 2016 Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award of the ASA’s International Migration Section.