Becoming Indian
Title | Becoming Indian PDF eBook |
Author | Circe Sturm |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Cherokee Indians |
ISBN | 9781934691441 |
... 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 ...
Becoming Indian
Title | Becoming Indian PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0143418238 |
India Becoming
Title | India Becoming PDF eBook |
Author | Akash Kapur |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1594486530 |
A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012 A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012 A Newsweek "Must Read on Modern India" “For people who savored Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers.”—Evan Osnos, newyorker.com From the author of Better To Have Gone, a portrait of the incredible change and economic development of modern India, and of social and national transformation there told through individual lives Raised in India, and educated in the U.S., Akash Kapur returned to India in 2003 to raise a family. What he found was an ancient country in transition. In search of the life that he and his wife want to lead, he meets an array of Indians who teach him much about the realities of this changed country: an old landowner sees his rural village destroyed by real estate developments, and crime and corruption breaking down the feudal authority; a 21-year-old single woman and a 35-year-old divorcee exploring the new cultural allowances for women; and a young gay man coming to terms with his sexual identity – something never allowed him a generation ago. As Akash and his wife struggle to find the right balance between growth and modernity and the simplicity and purity they had known from the Indian countryside a decade ago, they ultimately find a country that “has begun to dream.” But also one that may be moving away too quickly from the valuable ways in which it is different.
Ethnic Routes to Becoming American
Title | Ethnic Routes to Becoming American PDF eBook |
Author | Sharmila Rudrappa |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813533711 |
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.
Legalizing Identities
Title | Legalizing Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Hoffman French |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807832928 |
Anthropologists widely agree that identities_even ethnic and racial ones_are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve
Becoming Two-spirit
Title | Becoming Two-spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Joseph Gilley |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2006-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0803271263 |
An intimate glimpse of how Two-Spirit (gay) Native men in Colorado and Oklahoma work to build cross-tribal networks of support as they search for acceptance within their own communities.
Becoming American, Being Indian
Title | Becoming American, Being Indian PDF eBook |
Author | Madhulika S. Khandelwal |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501722026 |
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.