LEADER 03869nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910973589103321 005 20251116150926.0 010 $a0-8135-5613-9 010 $a0-8135-3638-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000031401 035 $a(OCoLC)70733866 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10075360 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000150090 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11162977 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150090 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10239854 035 $a(PQKB)10141181 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3032109 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3032109 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10075360 035 $a(OCoLC)56823178 035 $a(BIP)77575731 035 $a(BIP)8947732 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000031401 100 $a20030822d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthnic routes to becoming American $eIndian immigrants and the cultures of citizenship /$fSharmila Rudrappa 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, NJ $cRutgers University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8135-3370-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aHow 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. 606 $aEast Indian Americans$xCultural assimilation 606 $aEast Indian Americans$xPolitics and government 606 $aEast Indian Americans$xSocial conditions 606 $aImmigrants$xPolitical activity$zUnited States 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aCitizenship$zUnited States 615 0$aEast Indian Americans$xCultural assimilation. 615 0$aEast Indian Americans$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aEast Indian Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aImmigrants$xPolitical activity 615 0$aImmigrants$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aCitizenship 676 $a305.891/4073 700 $aRudrappa$b Sharmila$f1966-$01867929 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973589103321 996 $aEthnic routes to becoming American$94475692 997 $aUNINA