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Muncie, India(na) : Middletown and Asian America / Himanee Gupta-Carlson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gupta-Carlson, Himanee, author.
- Series:
- Asian American experience.
- The Asian American experience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muncie (Ind.)--Biography.
- Muncie (Ind.).
- Muncie (Ind.)--Social conditions.
- Muncie (Ind.)--Ethnic relations.
- Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970. Middletown.
- Lynd, Robert Staughton.
- Gupta-Carlson, Himanee.
- Immigrants--Indiana--Muncie.
- Immigrants.
- South Asian Americans--Indiana--Muncie.
- South Asian Americans.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This work is a study of South Asian Americans in Muncie, Indiana - the author's hometown. Muncie is the small Midwestern city made famous for being 'typical America' through the Middletown studies.
- Contents:
- Creating a typical America: the Middletown studies and Muncie
- Marring typicality: South Asian immigrants in Muncie
- Fitting in: Muncie South Asians and childhood
- Navigating rebellion and respect: South Asian teenagers and high school life
- Cowpath crossings: post-industrial work and Indian doctors
- Knowing your place: religious identities and differences
- Conclusion: race, religion, and the limits of tolerance
- Epilogue: an unraveled America?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252050497
- 0252050495
- OCLC:
- 1028671778
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