"From Expatriate Aristocrat to Immigrant Nobody": South Asian Racial Strategies in the Southern Californian Context

George, Rosemary Marangoly

doi:10.1353/dsp.1997.0017

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“…For example, having achieved economic parity with Whites, some Asian Americans see themselves as above Blacks (Dhingra, 2003; O’Brien, 2008). South Asians may dissociate from Blacks to avoid having their own dark skin linked to Blackness and to escape reducing their own status (George, 1997). In turn, some West Indians distance themselves from the stigma associated with Blackness in the United States (Kasinitz, 1992; Woldemikae, 1989).…”

Section: Closeness Across Color Linesmentioning

confidence: 99%

African American, Black Caribbean, and Non-Hispanic White Feelings of Closeness Toward Other Racial and Ethnic Groups

Thornton

Taylor

Chatters

2012

Journal of Black Studies

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Section: Closeness Across Color Linesmentioning

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African American, Black Caribbean, and Non-Hispanic White Feelings of Closeness Toward Other Racial and Ethnic Groups

Thornton

Taylor

Chatters

2012

Journal of Black Studies

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“…Positioning the Sikh diaspora as a cultural group in the video allows them to re-imagine their religious identity through the psychological frame of being model and "good minorities" and gives them an opportunity to distance themselves from other minorities that are under the spotlight. Indian-Americans, including Sikh Americans, are comfortable with the idea that they differ from mainstream white America in terms of culture and ethnicity-but not in terms of their racial identity (George, 1997). More recently, secondgeneration South Asians and members of the Sikhs diaspora have resisted framing their identity through cultural traditions, rituals and have instead embraced a politicized discourse of race and racism in their representation of identity.…”

Section: Case Study #2: Cultural Citizenship and The Post 9/11 Era Inmentioning

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Cultural psychology for a new era of citizenship politics

Ellis

Bhatia

2018

Culture & Psychology

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In the current era of citizenship politics, both legal citizenship and cultural citizenship have become highly contested social categories and new bases for social discrimination. Psychological studies of migration thus need to consider more explicitly how shifting sociopolitical contexts shape migrant life opportunities and how migrants respond to their shifting circumstances. Cultural psychologists have much to contribute to this project given their focus on the ways cultural experiences are shaped at once by broader social determinants and the intentional acts of social agents who navigate diversely organized worlds. However, we argue that cultural psychologists need to integrate critical concepts into cultural psychological studies of migration to avoid both overlooking important determinants of migrant lives and inadvertently perpetuating social inequalities and discriminatory policies. Drawing upon qualitative research conducted with Polish “irregular” migrants in Canada and Sikh Americans, we show how critical concepts such as “illegalization,” “deportability,” and “cultural citizenship” can help expand cultural psychological inquiry to better understand contemporary immigrant experiences. We conclude with discipline-specific recommendations for building a cultural psychology fit for the study of migration in the 21st-century.

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“…Researchers have examined the implications of the social constructions of Muslim immigrants’ identities as both White and not White. For example, Asians and South Asians are able to take advantage of the economic resources provided by civil rights legislation to position themselves as middleman and model minorities through narratives of cultural exceptionalism while disavowing Brown racial identity (George 1997; Visweswaran 1997). South Asians deploy Aryan ancestry to avoid racialization by skin color (George 1997).…”

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“…For example, Asians and South Asians are able to take advantage of the economic resources provided by civil rights legislation to position themselves as middleman and model minorities through narratives of cultural exceptionalism while disavowing Brown racial identity (George 1997; Visweswaran 1997). South Asians deploy Aryan ancestry to avoid racialization by skin color (George 1997). Susan Koshy (2001) argues that for Asian Americans, ambiguity around race identification—the disidentification with Whiteness as culture while identifying with it in terms of social class, power, and political interests—facilitates their incorporation into the American Dream.…”

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Race Knowledge

Byng

2017

Du Bois Rev.

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This analysis addresses race knowledge or the connection between race identity and the ability to designate what is socially legitimate. It problematizes race inequality in light of neoliberal, post-Civil Rights racial reforms. Using qualitative data from interviews with second-generation Muslim Americans, the analysis maps their understanding of the racialized social legitimacy of Brown, Black, and White identities. Findings address how racial hierarchy is organized by racial neoliberalism and the persistence of White supremacy. They show that White racial dominance continues in spite of claims of post-racialism. Moreover, second-generation Muslim Americans position their Brown and Black racial identity as subordinate to White racial identity, but Brown and Black races are different rather than hierarchically positioned in reference to one another. The respondents bring neoliberal globalism as well as U.S. racial dynamics to bear on their understandings of racial hierarchy and racialized social legitimacy.

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"From Expatriate Aristocrat to Immigrant Nobody": South Asian Racial Strategies in the Southern Californian Context

Cited by 47 publications

References 26 publications

African American, Black Caribbean, and Non-Hispanic White Feelings of Closeness Toward Other Racial and Ethnic Groups

African American, Black Caribbean, and Non-Hispanic White Feelings of Closeness Toward Other Racial and Ethnic Groups

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