Becoming American Being Indian
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Becoming American Being Indian
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Author : Madhulika S. Khandelwal
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-06
Becoming American Being Indian written by Madhulika S. Khandelwal and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with Social Science categories.
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.
Ethnic Routes To Becoming American
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Author : Sharmila Rudrappa
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2004
Ethnic Routes To Becoming American written by Sharmila Rudrappa and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
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.
The Other One Percent
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Author : Sanjoy Chakravorty
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Other One Percent written by Sanjoy Chakravorty and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Social Science categories.
One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary, but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the most-educated and highest-income group in the world's most advanced nation. The Other One Percent is a careful, data-driven, and comprehensive account of the three core processes-selection, assimilation, and entrepreneurship-that have led to this rapid rise. This unique phenomenon is driven by-and, in turn, has influenced-wide-ranging changes, especially the on-going revolution in information technology and its impact on economic globalization, immigration policies in the U.S., higher education policies in India, and foreign policies of both nations. If the overall picture is one of economic success, the details reveal the critical issues faced by Indian immigrants stemming from the social, linguistic, and class structure in India, their professional and geographic distribution in the U.S., their pan-Indian and regional identities, their strong presence in both high-skill industries (like computers and medicine) and low-skill industries (like hospitality and retail trade), and the multi-generational challenges of a diverse group from the world's largest democracy fitting into its oldest.
Being And Becoming Indian
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Author : James A. Clifton
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : Dorsey Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Being And Becoming Indian written by James A. Clifton and has been published by Chicago : Dorsey Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Indians of North America categories.
These biographies are quite fascinating as accounts of human experience, and they are thoroughly revealing as illustrations of what it has meant to be 'Indian' in a divided and changing world. -- from Back Cover.
Becoming American Becoming Ethnic
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Author : Thomas Dublin
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-09
Becoming American Becoming Ethnic written by Thomas Dublin 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 2010-09-09 with Social Science categories.
Personal reflections on the challenges that face college students coming to understand their ethnicity in contemporary America.
Becoming Indian
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Author : Circe Sturm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Becoming Indian written by Circe Sturm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Cherokee Indians categories.
... Racial shifter ... are people who have changed their racial self-identification from non-Indian to Indian on the U.S. census. Many racial shifters are people who, while looking for their roots, have recently discovered their Native American ancestry ...
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian National Book Award Winner
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Author : Sherman Alexie
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-01-10
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian National Book Award Winner written by Sherman Alexie and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-10 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
Becoming America
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Author : Jon Butler
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2001-12-28
Becoming America written by Jon Butler and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-28 with History categories.
Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago -- and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society -- a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch transforms our customary picture of prerevolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto "dark ages") of the American colonial experience, and emphasizing the importance of the middle and southern colonies as well as New England, Becoming America shows us transformations before 1776 among an unusually diverse assortment of peoples. Here is a polyglot population of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, Swedes, and French; a society of small colonial cities with enormous urban complexities; an economy of prosperous farmers thrust into international market economies; peoples of immense wealth, a burgeoning middle class, and incredible poverty. Butler depicts settlers pursuing sophisticated provincial politics that ultimately sparked revolution and a new nation; developing new patterns in production, consumption, crafts, and trades that remade commerce at home and abroad; and fashioning a society remarkably pluralistic in religion, whose tolerance nonetheless did not extend to Africans or Indians. Here was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself many times during the next centuries -- asociety that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America.
These Americans
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Author : Jyotsna Sreenivasan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-03
These Americans written by Jyotsna Sreenivasan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-03 with categories.
THESE AMERICANS, a debut collection of short fiction, explores what it means to live between Indian culture and American expectations. An Indian-born immigrant mother gives birth to her daughter in a small Ohio town. A college student avoids the academic expectations of her immigrant parents. A naïve immigrant mother is in denial about her lawyer daughter's lesbianism. This gripping collection of eight short stories and a novella will stay with you long after you turn the last page.
Black White And Indian
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Author : Claudio Saunt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-04-21
Black White And Indian written by Claudio Saunt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-21 with History categories.
Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country's racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to survive the pervasive onslaught of racism more than the Graysons. Like many other residents of the eighteenth-century Native American South, where Black-Indian relations bore little social stigma, Katy Grayson and her brother William--both Creek Indians--had children with partners of African descent. As the plantation economy began to spread across their native land soon after the birth of the American republic, however, Katy abandoned her black partner and children to marry a Scottish-Creek man. She herself became a slaveholder, embracing slavery as a public display of her elevated place in America's racial hierarchy. William, by contrast, refused to leave his black wife and their several children and even legally emancipated them. Traveling separate paths, the Graysons survived the invasion of the Creek Nation by U.S. troops in 1813 and again in 1836 and endured the Trail of Tears, only to confront each other on the battlefield during the Civil War. Afterwards, they refused to recognize each other's existence. In 1907, when Creek Indians became U.S. citizens, Oklahoma gave force of law to the family schism by defining some Graysons as white, others as black. Tracking a full five generations of the Grayson family and basing his account in part on unprecedented access to the forty-four volume diary of G. W. Grayson, the one-time principal chief of the Creek Nation, Claudio Saunt tells not only of America's past, but of its present, shedding light on one of the most contentious issues in Indian politics, the role of "blood" in the construction of identity. Overwhelmed by the racial hierarchy in the United States and compelled to adopt the very ideology that oppressed them, the Graysons denied their kin, enslaved their relatives, married their masters, and went to war against each other. Claudio Saunt gives us not only a remarkable saga in its own right but one that illustrates the centrality of race in the American experience.