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Ethnicity --- South Asian Americans --- South Asian Americans --- South Asian American teenagers --- South Asian American teenagers --- Subculture --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions

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What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital. Aspiring to Home focuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians from 1999–2009, including those by author Jhumpa Lahiri and filmmaker Mira Nair, as well as public events such as the Miss India U.S.A. pageant and the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Analyzing these diverse productions through an interdisciplinary framework, Mani weaves literary readings with ethnography to unravel the constraints of form and genre that shape how we read diasporic popular culture.

American literature -- South Asian American authors -- History and criticism. --- South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity. --- South Asian Americans in literature. --- American literature --- South Asian Americans in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- South Asian Americans --- South Asian American arts --- Arts, South Asian American --- Ethnic arts --- South Asians --- Ethnology --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism --- South Asian American authors --- Ethnic identity --- Littérature américaine --- Américains d'origine asiatique --- Émigration et immigration --- Auteurs d'origine asiatique --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Identité ethnique --- Immigrants in literature. --- South Asian American arts. --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic identity.

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What does it mean to be a model minority? "How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians "How does it feel to be a solution?" In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a "model minority"—one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as "a weapon in the war against black America." On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the "model minority" image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad uses irony, humor, razor-sharp criticism, personal reflections, and historical research to challenge the arguments made by Dinesh D'Souza, who heralds South Asian success in the U.S., and to question the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians. A look at Deepak Chopra and others whom Prashad terms "Godmen" shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality, much to the chagrin of other South Asians. Following the long engagement of American culture with South Asia, Prashad traces India's effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau, Ravi Shankar's influence on John Coltrane, and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance. The Karma of Brown Folk locates the birth of the "model minority" myth, placing it firmly in the context of reaction to the struggle for Black Liberation. Prashad reclaims the long history of black and South Asian solidarity, discussing joint struggles in the U.S., the Caribbean, South Africa, and elsewhere, and exposes how these powerful moments of alliance faded from historical memory and were replaced by Indian support for antiblack racism. Ultimately, Prashad writes not just about South Asians in America but about America itself, in the tradition of Tocqueville, Du Bois, Richard Wright, and others. He explores the place of collective struggle and multiracial alliances in the transformation of self and community—in short, how Americans define themselves.

East Indian Americans --- Racism --- South Asian Americans --- Race identity. --- Social conditions. --- Américains d'origine asiatique --- Américains d'origine indienne (de l'Inde) --- États-Unis --- Identité collective --- Conditions sociales --- Relations interethniques --- Racisme

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Offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States. This book explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are fulfilled.

South Asian Americans --- Cosmopolitanism --- Globalization --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Political science --- Internationalism --- South Asians --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnic identity. --- Social aspects --- United States --- Ethnic relations.