The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity
Author | : Kavitha Koshy |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2022-10-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781793643735 |
ISBN-13 | : 1793643733 |
Rating | : 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity written by Kavitha Koshy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines, Kavitha Koshy offers a timely exploration of Indian immigrant racialization at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is a call to action for an anti-racist, decolonial practice among differentially racialized peoples. The findings of the research uncover the paradoxes of claiming deracialized, neoliberal identities, while engaging in racial contestation, benefiting from selective immigration while occupying a racialized-human capital-labor "slot" in global capitalism, and experiencing "racialized otherness" through everyday racism, despite proximity to whiteness. Koshy develops a typology of Indian immigrant racialized subjectivity amid anti-Blackness, whiteness, caste-ness, Islamophobia, "forever foreignness," and neoliberal logic.