03869nam 2200685 a 450 991097358910332120251116150926.00-8135-5613-90-8135-3638-3(CKB)1000000000031401(OCoLC)70733866(CaPaEBR)ebrary10075360(SSID)ssj0000150090(PQKBManifestationID)11162977(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150090(PQKBWorkID)10239854(PQKB)10141181(MiAaPQ)EBC3032109(Au-PeEL)EBL3032109(CaPaEBR)ebr10075360(OCoLC)56823178(BIP)77575731(BIP)8947732(EXLCZ)99100000000003140120030822d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEthnic routes to becoming American Indian immigrants and the cultures of citizenship /Sharmila Rudrappa1st ed.New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Pressc20041 online resource (251 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8135-3370-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Locating South Asian Americans -- Chapter 2: Finding Our Home in This World: Abuse Survivors in Apna Ghar -- Chapter 3: Workers at Apna Ghar -- Chapter 4: The Indo American Center: "Integrating the Best of Both Cultures" -- Chapter 5: The Politics of Cultural Authenticity -- Chapter 6: Becoming American: The Racialized Content of American Citizenship -- Chapter 7: Not White in Public, Not Ethnic at Home -- Chapter 8: The Cultural Turn in Politics and Community Organizing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.How does an immigrant become an ethnic American? And does American society fundamentally alter because of these newcomers? In Ethnic Routes to Becoming American , Sharmila Rudrappa examines the paths South Asian immigrants in Chicago take toward assimilation in the late twentieth-century United States, where deliberations on citizenship rights are replete with the politics of recognition. She takes us inside two ethnic institutions, a battered women's shelter, Apna Ghar, and a cultural organization, the Indo American Center, to show how immigrant activism, which brings cultural difference into public sphere debates, ironically abets these immigrants' assimilation. She interlaces ethnographic details with political-philosophical debates on the politics of recognition and redistribution. In this study on the under-researched topic of the incorporation of South Asian immigrants into the American polity, Sharmila Rudrappa compels us to rethink ethnic activism, participatory democracy, and nation-building processes.East Indian AmericansCultural assimilationEast Indian AmericansPolitics and governmentEast Indian AmericansSocial conditionsImmigrantsPolitical activityUnited StatesImmigrantsUnited StatesSocial conditionsCitizenshipUnited StatesEast Indian AmericansCultural assimilation.East Indian AmericansPolitics and government.East Indian AmericansSocial conditions.ImmigrantsPolitical activityImmigrantsSocial conditions.Citizenship305.891/4073Rudrappa Sharmila1966-1867929MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973589103321Ethnic routes to becoming American4475692UNINA