Ethnic Routes to Becoming American - 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 Ethnic Routes to Becoming American write by Sharmila Rudrappa. This book was released on 2004. Ethnic Routes to Becoming American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author examines the paths South Asian immigrants in Chicago take toward assimilation in the late 20th century United States. She examines two ethnic institutions to show how immigrant activism ironically abets these immigrants' assimilation.
Becoming American
Becoming American - 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 Becoming American write by Thomas J. Archdeacon. This book was released on 1984-03. Becoming American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the history of American immigration from 1607 to the 1920s and looks at how groups of immigrants have adapted to the United States.
Becoming American, Being Indian
Becoming American, Being Indian - 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 Becoming American, Being Indian write by Madhulika S. Khandelwal. This book was released on 2018-08-06. Becoming American, Being Indian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changed—the highly educated professional elite who came to this country from the subcontinent in the 1960s has given way to a population encompassing many from the working and middle classes. In her fascinating account of Indian immigrants in New York City, Madhulika S. Khandelwal explores the ways in which their world has evolved over four decades.How did this highly diverse ethnic group form an identity and community? Drawing on her extensive interviews with immigrants, Khandelwal examines the transplanting of Indian culture onto the Manhattan and Queens landscapes. She considers festivals and media, food and dress, religious activities of followers of different faiths, work and class, gender and generational differences, and the emergence of a variety of associations.Khandelwal analyzes how this growing ethnic community has gradually become "more Indian," with a stronger religious focus, larger family networks, and increasingly traditional marriage patterns. She discusses as well the ways in which the American experience has altered the lives of her subjects.
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.
New Roots in America's Sacred Ground
New Roots in America's Sacred Ground - 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 New Roots in America's Sacred Ground write by Khyati Y. Joshi. This book was released on 2006-05-23. New Roots in America's Sacred Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this compelling look at second-generation Indian Americans, Khyati Y. Joshi draws on case studies and interviews with forty-one second-generation Indian Americans, analyzing their experiences involving religion, race, and ethnicity from elementary school to adulthood. As she maps the crossroads they encounter as they navigate between their homes and the wider American milieu, Joshi shows how their identities have developed differently from their parents’ and their non-Indian peers’ and how religion often exerted a dramatic effect. The experiences of Joshi’s research participants reveal how race and religion interact, intersect, and affect each other in a society where Christianity and whiteness are the norm. Joshi shows how religion is racialized for Indian Americans and offers important insights in the wake of 9/11 and the backlash against Americans who look Middle Eastern and South Asian. Through her candid insights into the internal conflicts contemporary Indian Americans face and the religious and racial discrimination they encounter, Joshi provides a timely window into the ways that race, religion, and ethnicity interact in day-to-day life.
