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American karma : race, culture, and identity in the Indian diaspora / / Sunil Bhatia



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Autore: Bhatia Sunil Visualizza persona
Titolo: American karma : race, culture, and identity in the Indian diaspora / / Sunil Bhatia Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina: 305.800973
Soggetto topico: East Indian Americans - Social conditions
East Indian Americans - Ethnic identity
Immigrants - United States - Social conditions
Soggetto geografico: United States Ethnic relations
United States Emigration and immigration
India Emigration and immigration
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 American Karma -- 2 Qualitative Inquiry and Psychology -- 3 Des-Pardes in the American Suburbia -- 4 Saris, Chutney Sandwiches, and “Thick Accents” -- 5 Racism and Glass Ceilings -- 6 Analyzing Assignations and Assertions -- 7 Imagining Homes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into “people of color.” Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these transnational immigrants themselves come to understand and negotiate their identities. Bhatia forcefully contends that to fully understand migrant identity and cultural formation it is essential that psychologists and others think of selfhood as firmly intertwined with sociocultural factors such as colonialism, gender, language, immigration, and race-based immigration laws. American Karma offers a new framework for thinking about the construction of selfhood and identity in the context of immigration. This innovative approach advances the field of psychology by incorporating critical issues related to the concept of culture, including race, power, and conflict, and will also provide key insights to those in anthropology, sociology, human development, and migrant studies.
Titolo autorizzato: American karma  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4356-0744-9
0-8147-2311-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821461603321
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Serie: Qualitative studies in psychology.