Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship - Couverture rigide

Rudrappa, Sharmila

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813533708 ISBN 13 : 9780813533704

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2004

Synopsis

How does an immigrant become an ethnic American? And does American society fundamentally alter because of these newcomers? In Ethnic Routes to Becoming American , Sharmila Rudrappa examines the paths South Asian immigrants in Chicago take toward assimilation in the late twentieth-century United States, where deliberations on citizenship rights are replete with the politics of recognition. She takes us inside two ethnic institutions, a battered women's shelter, Apna Ghar, and a cultural organization, the Indo American Center, to show how immigrant activism, which brings cultural difference into public sphere debates, ironically abets these immigrants' assimilation. She interlaces ethnographic details with political-philosophical debates on the politics of recognition and redistribution. In this study on the under-researched topic of the incorporation of South Asian immigrants into the American polity, Sharmila Rudrappa compels us to rethink ethnic activism, participatory democracy, and nation-building processes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sharmila Rudrappa is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is affiliated with the Center for Asian American Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813533708
• ISBN 13: 9780813533704
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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