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National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, cartea 222

Autor Roksana Badruddoja
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 iul 2022
In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity, Roksana Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary “second-generation” Bengali American women. Badruddoja engages in a yearlong feminist ethnographic study with a nationwide sample of 25 women in the U.S. to poignantly explore perceptions about daily social and cultural practices. Exploring the conceptual and theoretical perspectives of the social, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of transnational migrations, Badruddoja interrogates assimilation to depict the messy nature of diasporic movement and the resulting complexities of diasporic identities. Badruddoja demonstrates racialized identities are often part of a constellation of loyalties that are multiple, contradictory, constantly shifting, and overlapping
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004512870
ISBN-10: 900451287X
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Critical Social Sciences


Notă biografică

Roksana Badruddoja, Ph.D. (2007), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is Chair and Professor of Sociology at Manhattan College, Bronx.

Cuprins

Foreword: Telling America’s Whole Story

1The Cheshire Cat Vexing Identities
1 Experience/Theory

2 Theoretical and Methodological Implications

3 Under-heard and Under-theorized Identities

4 Contribution to the Literature

5 Contesting Unitary Self


2Impossible Subjects (Re)Collecting South Asian American Im/migration
1 Welcome Desis … Not!: 1965 to 1990

2 abcd s and (Constructed) Manifest Contradictions


3From Research to Process Social Research, Feminist Scholarship, and Women’s Subjectivities
1 Researching Dislocated Women

2 Exploring the Unexplored

3 Bengalis in the Limelight

4 Access Granted

5 Analyze This … Analyze That

6 Non-oppression to Negotiation of Power


4Racial and Ethnic Imaginary Projects of (Re)Negotiation
1 Contesting Race

2 Racing Ethnicity

3 The Racial Beast
3.1Second-Generation?!?! I Thought I Was First!

3.2abcd and fob (American-Born Confused Desi and Fresh Off the Boat)

3.3I Am Desi


5Patrolling the Cultural Fences Community Place-Making
1 Culture: No Culture as to South Asian: American

2 Third World Women: Culture = Color = Oppression


6Territories of the Self Language, Holidays, Religion, Food, and Clothing
1 Benglish

2 Masala Turkey

3 Spiritual Ethnicity

4 Not Village India

5 Ethnic Chic


7Project of “Home” “Where Are You From?”
1 “Where Are You Really From?”

2 Mobile Diasporas


8Cultural Autonomy Boundaries of Marriage
1 Suitable Boy (Feminized Cultural Carriers)

2 “How Old Is Your Daughter?” (Masculinist Cultural Production)

3 (Un)Suitable Boy (Changing Contours of Boundaries)

4 “I Don’t Want to Have to Explain Everything about Myself!”

5 Love-Cum-Arranged


9Tropologies of Queerness Sexuality, Family, and Culture
1 Rupa
1.1Not Muslim … but Muslim

1.2Challenging Whiteness, Patriarchy, and Heteronormativity

1.3Subjectivity and Managing Identities (Sexuality, Family, and Culture)


2 Ronica
2.1Rupturing White/Feminist/Queer Canon

2.2Negotiating the Model Minority Myth

2.3Confronting Sexual and Ethnoracial Binaries


10Consolidation of the American Nation-State South Asian Diasporic Fiction
1 Samina Ali’s Madras on Rainy Days

2 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage

3 Tanuja Desai Hidier’s Born Confused

4 Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake


11Contesting the Unitary Self The abcd Conundrum and Sites of Intervention
1 Dissenting Spaces and the Changing Landscape of Otherness
1.1Lesson 1: Identity Grammar and Shifts

1.2Lesson 2: Marginality as a Space of Power


2 Becoming South Asian American (Over and Over Again)


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