ISBN:
9780814723111
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081472311X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (284 pages).
Series Statement:
Qualitative studies in psychology
Series Statement:
Qualitative studies in psychology.
Parallel Title:
Print version: Bhatia, Sunil. American Karma : Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora.
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Immigrants Social conditions.
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East Indian Americans Ethnic identity.
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East Indian Americans Social conditions.
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Américains d'origine indienne Identité ethnique.
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Américains d'origine indienne Conditions sociales.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE Emigration & Immigration.
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East Indian Americans Ethnic identity
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East Indian Americans Social conditions
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Emigration and immigration
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Ethnic relations
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Immigrants Social conditions
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India Emigration and immigration.
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United States Emigration and immigration.
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United States Ethnic relations.
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États-Unis Relations interethniques.
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États-Unis Émigration et immigration.
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India
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United States
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American.
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Karma.
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about.
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construction.
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context.
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framework.
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identity.
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immigration.
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offers.
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selfhood.
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thinking.
Abstract:
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 thems
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 American Karma: Race, Place, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora; 2 Qualitative Inquiry and Psychology: Doing Ethnography in Transnational Cultures; 3 Des-Pardes in the American Suburbia: Narratives from the Suburban Indian Diaspora; 4 Saris, Chutney Sandwiches, and "Thick Accents": Constructing Difference; 5 Racism and Glass Ceilings: Repositioning Difference; 6 Analyzing Assignations and Assertions: The Enigma of Brown Privilege; 7 Imagining Homes: Identity in Transnational Diasporas; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L.
Description / Table of Contents:
MN; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author.
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