American Karma Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora

A productive move in developing new directions in the study of desire, agency, and ambiguous inequality among immigrant populations in the contemporary Americas. - Aisha Khan,New York University Effectively blends identity theory and ethnography to examine the immigrant experience of first-generation, professional Indians. Provoking reflection on the racial dynamics and identity politics of American society, this work goes a long way towards humanizing what it means to be an immigrant in the United States. - Cynthia Lightfoot,Penn State University, Delaware County Offers a new framework to examine selfhood and self identity in the context of immigration. (India New England) Bhatia offers a well historicised, theoretically astute analysis of the racial, cultural and ethnic identities of Indian immigrants and their families living in predominantly white suburbs of New England. (South Asian Diaspora)