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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhatia, Sunil.

Series:

Qualitative studies in psychology.

Qualitative studies in psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indian Americans--Social conditions.

East Indian Americans.

East Indian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

India--Emigration and immigration.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

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ISBN:

9781435607446

1435607449

9780814723111

081472311X

OCLC:

819603546