Ethnic routes to becoming American : Indian immigrants and the cultures of citizenship / / Sharmila Rudrappa
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| Autore: |
Rudrappa Sharmila <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Ethnic routes to becoming American : Indian immigrants and the cultures of citizenship / / Sharmila Rudrappa
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| Pubblicazione: | New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.891/4073 |
| Soggetto topico: | East Indian Americans - Cultural assimilation |
| East Indian Americans - Politics and government | |
| East Indian Americans - Social conditions | |
| Immigrants - Political activity - United States | |
| Immigrants - United States - Social conditions | |
| Citizenship - United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ethnic routes to becoming American |
| ISBN: | 0-8135-5613-9 |
| 0-8135-3638-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910973589103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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