A Part Yet Apart
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A Part Yet Apart
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Author : Lavina Dhingra Shankar
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
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A Part Yet Apart written by Lavina Dhingra Shankar and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
As people from the cultures of the Indian subcontinent increasingly participate in the complex and often heated debates about race and ethnicity in the United States, they confront questions about naming and claiming an identity that designates their group in this country. To be sure, claiming any single identity omits, perhaps threatens to obliterate, the significant political, historical, economic, and religious differences between their countries of origin. However, the term "South Asian" is growing in acceptance among people in this country who trace their heritage to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Maldives because it acknowledges common interests while it allows for difference. This construction process parallels the gradual acceptance of the term "Asian American" by peoples primarily of East and Southeast Asian ancestry who found abundant reason to claim a shared identity in dealing with officialdom and an apparently intractable racism in this country. In time, "Asian American" has become a designation of collective pride for a wide range of peoples. In academic institutions and society generally, there are vexed questions about the term's inclusiveness and the dominance of established groups over more recent ones.A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian Americaconcerns itself with the extent to which South Asian Americans are and ought to be included within Asian America – as that term is applied to academic programs and admission policies; grassroots community organizing and politics more broadly; and critical analyses of cultural products. Taken together these essays form a spirited dialogue on the dilemmas of identity politics, coalition building, and diasporics. Author note:Lavina Dhingra Shankaris Assistant Professor of English at Bates College, Maine.Rajini Srikanthis Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Tufts University, Massachusetts.
Unruly Immigrants
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Author : Monisha Das Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-31
Unruly Immigrants written by Monisha Das Gupta and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-31 with Social Science categories.
In Unruly Immigrants, Monisha Das Gupta explores the innovative strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have developed to assert claims to rights for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship. Since the 1980s many South Asian immigrants have found the India-centered “model minority” politics of previous generations inadequate to the task of redressing problems such as violence against women, homophobia, racism, and poverty. Thus they have devised new models of immigrant advocacy, seeking rights that are mobile rather than rooted in national membership, and advancing their claims as migrants rather than as citizens-to-be. Creating social justice organizations, they have inventively constructed a transnational complex of rights by drawing on local, national, and international laws to seek entitlements for their constituencies. Das Gupta offers an ethnography of seven South Asian organizations in the northeastern United States, looking at their development and politics as well as the conflicts that have emerged within the groups over questions of sexual, class, and political identities. She examines the ways that women’s organizations have defined and responded to questions of domestic violence as they relate to women’s immigration status; she describes the construction of a transnational South Asian queer identity and culture by people often marginalized by both mainstream South Asian and queer communities in the United States; and she draws attention to the efforts of labor groups who have sought economic justice for taxi drivers and domestic workers by confronting local policies that exploit cheap immigrant labor. Responding to the shortcomings of the state, their communities, and the larger social movements of which they are a part, these groups challenge the assumption that citizenship is the necessary basis of rights claims.
Together Yet Apart
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Author : Vaishali S
language : en
Publisher: BlueRose Publishers Pvt Ltd
Release Date : 2025-06-30
Together Yet Apart written by Vaishali S and has been published by BlueRose Publishers Pvt Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Yet Apart" is the haunting story of Aanchal—a woman trapped in a marriage without love, respect, or identity. Every day, she fades a little more under the weight of silence and duty. But how long can a soul survive without warmth? Should she surrender to this slow suffocation... or risk stepping into a world that might hold the love she craves? But what if the world outside isn't a rescue—but another beautifully disguised trap? As Aanchal stands on the edge of escape, she must ask herself: Is this her second chance—or the beginning of a darker betrayal?
Asian Americans And Politics
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Author : Gordon H. Chang
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2001
Asian Americans And Politics written by Gordon H. Chang and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
This volume is the first to take a broad-ranging look at the engagement of Asian Americans with American politics. Its contributors come from a variety of disciplines—history, political science, sociology, and urban studies—and from the practical political realm.
The Human Tradition In America From 1865 To The Present
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Author : Charles W. Calhoun
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2003-08-01
The Human Tradition In America From 1865 To The Present written by Charles W. Calhoun and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-01 with History categories.
Designed as a text for the second half of the U.S. history survey course, The Human Tradition in America from 1865 to the Present is a collection of the best biographical essays from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America series. Like all books in the series, this text presents history from the 'bottom up' by chronicling the lives of ordinary Americans. These brief biographical sketches stress to students that history is created by people, making the subject appealing and vibrant in a way that just names and dates in a standard textbook cannot. Capturing the rich diversity of the United States, The Human Tradition in America from 1865 to the Present includes the stories of a variety of Americans of different races, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, religious affiliations, and genders from many different regions of the country. For this reader, series editor Charles Calhoun has carefully selected biographies of individuals whose lives highlight important themes from this dynamic period of history. The essays included here are sure to engage students, provoke lively classroom discussion, and promote critical thinking.
I Drum Therefore I Am
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Author : Gareth Dylan Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
I Drum Therefore I Am written by Gareth Dylan Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with Music categories.
Despite their central role in many forms of music-making, drummers have been largely neglected in the scholarly literature on music and education. But kit drummers are increasingly difficult to ignore. While exponents of the drum kit are frequently mocked in popular culture, they are also widely acknowledged to be central to the musical success and aesthetic appeal of any musical ensemble in which they are found. Drummers are also making their presence felt in music education, with increasing opportunities to learn their craft in formal contexts. Drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews and questionnaires, Gareth Dylan Smith explores the identities, practices and learning of teenage and adult kit drummers in and around London. As a London-based drummer and teacher of drummers, Smith uses his own identity as participant-researcher to inform and interpret other drummers' accounts of their experiences. Drummers learn in multi-modal ways, usually with a keen awareness of exemplars of their art and craft. The world of kit drumming is highly masculine, which presents opportunities and challenges to drummers of both sexes. Smith proposes a new model of the 'Snowball Self', which incorporates the constructs of identity realization, learning realization, meta-identities and contextual identities. Kit drummers' identities, practices and learning are found to be intertwined, as drummers exist in a web of interdependence. Drummers drum; therefore they are, they do, and they learn - in a rich tapestry of means and contexts.
Coffee Cup
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Author : Mitchell Alexander Jackson
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2020-02-17
Coffee Cup written by Mitchell Alexander Jackson and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-17 with Poetry categories.
Creating your own poem is a wonderful experience. For those persons who love to write poems and read poems, an outlet for creative expression is the Poetry Slam experience. Meanwhile, experience this volume of poetry. This book of poems, hopefully, will spark joy, wonder, and reflection for you, the reader. Also, this book has pages with space available to jot down ideas or create your own poem. And, maybe, you too will put pen to paper. Mitchell Alexander Jackson has written four books, three of them have poetry as a main section. The name of the books are as follows: 1) Shorn Sharer, 2) Shorn Sharer— Leavings, 3) A Random Act Of Kindness—The loving Cup, 4) In Poetry, Prose And Song. Unlike the others, A Random Act Of Kindness— has only a handful of poetry.
Postcolonial Theory And The United States
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Author : Amritjit Singh
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-11-12
Postcolonial Theory And The United States written by Amritjit Singh and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a “transnational” moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. Studies addressing issues of race, ethnicity, and empire in US culture have provided some of the most innovative and controversial contributions to recent scholarship. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature represents a new chapter in the emerging dialogues about the importance of borders on a global scale. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s in this emergent field by both well established and up-and-coming scholars. Almost all the essays have been either especially written for this volume or revised for inclusion here. These essays are accessible, well-focused resources for college and university students and their teachers, displaying both historical depth and theoretical finesse as they attempt close and lively readings. The anthology includes more than one discussion of each literary tradition associated with major racial or ethnic communities. Such a gathering of diverse, complementary, and often competing viewpoints provides a good introduction to the cultural differences and commonalities that comprise the United States today. The volume opens with two essays by the editors: first, a survey of the ideas in the individual pieces, and, second, a long essay that places current debates in US ethnicity and race studies within both the history of American studies as a whole and recent developments in postcolonial theory.
National Un Belonging Bengali American Women On Imagining And Contesting Culture And Identity
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Author : Roksana Badruddoja
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-07-18
National Un Belonging Bengali American Women On Imagining And Contesting Culture And Identity written by Roksana Badruddoja and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-18 with Social Science categories.
In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity, Roksana Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary “second-generation” Bengali American women. Badruddoja engages in a yearlong feminist ethnographic study with a nationwide sample of 25 women in the U.S. to poignantly explore perceptions about daily social and cultural practices. Exploring the conceptual and theoretical perspectives of the social, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of transnational migrations, Badruddoja interrogates assimilation to depict the messy nature of diasporic movement and the resulting complexities of diasporic identities. Badruddoja demonstrates racialized identities are often part of a constellation of loyalties that are multiple, contradictory, constantly shifting, and overlapping
The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of Asian American Literature
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Author : Guiyou Huang
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-12-30
The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of Asian American Literature written by Guiyou Huang and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Asian American literature dates back to the close of the 19th century, and during the years following World War II it significantly expanded in volume and diversity. Monumental in scope, this encyclopedia surveys Asian American literature from its origins through 2007. Included are more than 270 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, major works, significant historical events, and important terms and concepts. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical, social, cultural, and legal contexts surrounding Asian American literature and central to the Asian American experience. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and cites works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography of essential print and electronic resources. While literature students will value this encyclopedia as a guide to writings by Asian Americans, the encyclopedia also supports the social studies curriculum by helping students use literature to learn about Asian American history and culture, as it pertains to writers from a host of Asian ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Afghans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Iranians, Indians, Vietnamese, Hawaiians, and other Asian Pacific Islanders. The encyclopedia supports the literature curriculum by helping students learn more about Asian American literature. In addition, it supports the social studies curriculum by helping students learn about the Asian American historical and cultural experience.