Chapter 4: Local Globalisms and Global Localisms: The American Dream, New York and Western Capitalist Urbanity in South Asian American Writing

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Dream ◽  
South Asian American

Negotiating Space and Making Place: Punjabi-Sikh Cabbies in New York City

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052095423
Author(s):  
Diditi Mitra
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Immigrant Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Transnational Space

I examine how immigrant Punjabi-Sikhs make sense of themselves as yellow cabbies in New York with two complementary frameworks—Hill Collins’ “matrix of domination” and insights from the literature exploring the interplay between race and ethnicity. The cabbies discussed their immigrant status, non-whiteness, and social class as influential, emphasizing the effects of all three forms of marginalization as occurring simultaneously. They deployed “money” to frame this subordination and to negotiate dimensions of social location and identity. The transnational space they occupied emerges noteworthy too in their identity making. This analysis, based on interviews with 56 cabbies, advances scholarship on race and immigration/transnationalism, Asian and South Asian American identities, specifically research on immigrant Sikhs of lower socioeconomic status, attention on whom is scant.

Knowledge of the HPV vaccine among South Asian and South Asian-American young adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. S195
Author(s):  
Katherine Jane Chua ◽  
Masra Shameem ◽  
Amal Amir ◽  
Joyce Varughese
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Hpv Vaccine ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
American Young Adults

scholarly journals (Non)Places of Bangalore: Where the East Meets the West in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Izabella Kimak
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
Primary Location ◽  
Spatial Locations ◽  
The Impact

This essay constitutes an attempt at reading Bharati Mukherjee’s 2011 novel, Miss New India, through the prism of spatial locations depicted in it. Unlike many of the texts in the late South Asian American author’s oeuvre, which depict migration from the East to the West, Miss New India is located exclusively within South Asia. This notwithstanding, the novel focuses on the impact the West used to and continues to exert on the East. I would like to argue that through her depictions of places and non-places of Bangalore-the novel’s primary location-Mukherjee points to the spatial interconnectedness of the East and the West as well as to the temporal interconnectedness of the colonial past and postcolonial, late-capitalist present.

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