Desi Distancing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desi Distancing write by Sarah Fawad. This book was released on 2020-10-10. Desi Distancing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sarah Fawad is known as the satire queen on social media, making thousands laugh at her comical yet very relatable writings about society, motherhood and people around her. She is famous for drawing up very real instances and examples, witty conversations included, in both her native language Urdu and in English too.She holds a Master's in English literature, has written for her local newspaper, is a full time blogger, mother of three, and has traveled to more than a dozen countries, reliving her experiences in her writings.This is her second book, a light, satirical, almost auto-biographical account of her life in Pakistani society. This book will make you laugh out loud because of the insanely funny conversations and stories but at the same time will make you realize the atrocities people and the society make you go through and how to live through them to tell the tale!In short it will help you stay safely distanced from the dangerous in desi.
Desi Rap
Desi Rap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desi Rap write by Ajay Nair. This book was released on 2008-10-17. Desi Rap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Desi Rap is a collection of essays from South Asian American activists, academics, and hip-hop artists that explores four main ideas: hip-hop as a means of expression of racial identity, class status, gender, sexuality, racism, and culture; the appropriation of Black racial identity by South Asian American consumers of hip-hop; the furthering of the discourse on race and ethnic identity in the United States through hip-hop; and the exploration of South Asian Americans' use of hip-hop as a form of social protest. Ultimately, this volume is about broadening our horizons through hip-hop and embracing the South Asian American community's polycultural legacy and future.
Desi Land
Desi Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desi Land write by Shalini Shankar. This book was released on 2008-10-27. Desi Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Desi Land is Shalini Shankar’s lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or “Desis,” define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology. Between 1999 and 2001 Shankar spent many months “kickin’ it” with Desi teenagers at three Silicon Valley high schools, and she has since followed their lives and stories. The diverse high-school students who populate Desi Land are Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs, from South Asia and other locations; they include first- to fourth-generation immigrants whose parents’ careers vary from assembly-line workers to engineers and CEOs. By analyzing how Desi teens’ conceptions and realizations of success are influenced by community values, cultural practices, language use, and material culture, she offers a nuanced portrait of diasporic formations in a transforming urban region. Whether discussing instant messaging or arranged marriages, Desi bling or the pressures of the model minority myth, Shankar foregrounds the teens’ voices, perspectives, and stories. She investigates how Desi teens interact with dialogue and songs from Bollywood films as well as how they use their heritage language in ways that inform local meanings of ethnicity while they also connect to a broader South Asian diasporic consciousness. She analyzes how teens negotiate rules about dating and reconcile them with their longer-term desire to become adult members of their communities. In Desi Land Shankar not only shows how Desi teens of different socioeconomic backgrounds are differently able to succeed in Silicon Valley schools and economies but also how such variance affects meanings of race, class, and community for South Asian Americans.
The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas
The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas write by Yasmin Jiwani. This book was released on 2024-09-26. The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities. This book brings together an international network of scholars, both established and emerging, to explore South Asian diasporic communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the U.K. It is a comparative cross-national analysis of the intersection of digital technologies and South Asian diasporas. The book centres on three key themes: the ever-presence of digital spaces and the importance of exploring them as focal points for defining and contesting identities; an exploration of how ‘home’ is represented in and across South Asian diasporic communities; and intra-communal diversity in South Asian diasporic communities. The chapters show how digital spaces sometimes create unprecedented opportunities for diasporic communities to mobilise (multi)cultures, sexuality, race, and queerness within South Asian diasporic communities and to move beyond ‘Desi’ and ‘Brown’ as homogenising identifiers. The contributors also demonstrate that digital spaces can be and have been used to reassert internal hegemonies far from homelands. Examining the discursive meanings of South Asian-ness – ‘Desi’, ‘Brown’, ‘South Asians’– the book foregrounds how it is defined, performed, and contested through digital platforms, in ways that redefine the concept of diaspora in innovative, non-territorialized, polyphonic, variegated, and dialogic ways. A novel contribution to the intersection of global digital inequalities, digital cultures and the South Asian diaspora, this book will be of interest to a wide scholarly audience of digital media, South Asian diaspora, culture and ethnicity, race, and the politics of resistance and counter-hegemonic mobilisations.
Bhangra Moves
Bhangra Moves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bhangra Moves write by AnjaliGera Roy. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Bhangra Moves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bhangra is commonly understood as the hybrid music produced in Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhythms. This is derived from a Punjabi harvest dance of the same name. This book looks at Bhangra's global flows from one of its originary sites, the Indian subcontinent, to contribute to the understanding of emerging South Asian cultural practices such as Bhangra or Bollywood in multi-ethnic societies. It seeks to trace Bhangra's moves from Punjab and its 'return back' to look at the forces that initiate and regulate global flows of local texts and to ask how their producers and consumers redirect them to produce new definitions of culture, identity and nation. The critical importance of this book lies in understanding the difference between the present globalizing wave and previous trans-local movements. Gera Roy contrasts the frames of cultural imperialism with those of cultural invasion to show how Indian cultures have constantly reinvented themselves by cross-pollinating with 'invading' cultures such as Hellenic, Persian, Arabic and many others in the past. By looking at Bhangra's flows to and from India, the book revises the relation between culture, space and identity and challenges boundaries. It weighs both the uses and costs of visibility provided by global networks to marginalized groups in diverse localities and explores whether collaborations between Bhangra practitioners, largely of working class origin, give ordinary people any control over the circulation of culture in the global village. Finally, the book considers whether cultural practices can alter hierarchies and power structures in the real world.
