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1 online resource (284 pages) |
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Qualitative studies in psychology |
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Qualitative studies in psychology.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 American Karma: Race, Place, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora; 2 Qualitative Inquiry and Psychology: Doing Ethnography in Transnational Cultures; 3 Des-Pardes in the American Suburbia: Narratives from the Suburban Indian Diaspora; 4 Saris, Chutney Sandwiches, and "Thick Accents": Constructing Difference; 5 Racism and Glass Ceilings: Repositioning Difference; 6 Analyzing Assignations and Assertions: The Enigma of Brown Privilege; 7 Imagining Homes: Identity in Transnational Diasporas; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L |
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MN; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author |
| Summary |
The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into "people of color." Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these transnational immigrants thems |
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American |
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Karma |
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about |
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construction |
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context |
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framework |
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identity |
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immigration |
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offers |
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selfhood |
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thinking |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index |
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Print version record |
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions
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East Indian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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East Indian Americans -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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East Indian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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East Indian Americans -- Social conditions
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Emigration and immigration
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Ethnic relations
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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India -- Emigration and immigration
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
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India
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814723111 |
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081472311X |
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