Aspiring to Home South Asians in America

Name: Aspiring to Home South Asians in America
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ISBN: 9780804777995

ISBN-10: 0804777993

ISBN-13: 9780804777995

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bakirathi Mani

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What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together?Aspiring to Homeexamines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital.Aspiring to Homefocuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians from 1999–2009, including…

Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English