Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora.
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New York :
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NYU Press,
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2007.
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1 online resource (284 pages)
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Qualitative studies in psychology
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 American Karma: Race, Place, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora; 2 Qualitative Inquiry and Psychology: Doing Ethnography in Transnational Cultures; 3 Des-Pardes in the American Suburbia: Narratives from the Suburban Indian Diaspora; 4 Saris, Chutney Sandwiches, and "Thick Accents": Constructing Difference; 5 Racism and Glass Ceilings: Repositioning Difference; 6 Analyzing Assignations and Assertions: The Enigma of Brown Privilege; 7 Imagining Homes: Identity in Transnational Diasporas; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L.
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MN; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author.
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The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into "people of color." Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these transnational immigrants thems.
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American Karma : Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora.