Racist Responses to Racism: The Aryan Myth and South Asians in the United States

Mazumdar, Sucheta

doi:10.1215/07323867-9-1-47

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“…The desire to see the United States as a progressive and a culturally sensitive society seemed important to several of our participants. From laws protecting against discrimination to their technological prowess to comparing their experiences to Indians in other countries (e.g., Britain), they highlighted the social class differences in the waves of immigrants to these countries especially given that class and caste privileges are linked to educational privilege (Mazumdar, 1989), reinforcing the idea of model minority (S. Bhatia, 2007).…”

Section: Contextualizing Racial Discriminationmentioning

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Perceptions of Race-Based Discrimination Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States

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Tummala‐Narra

Kaduvettoor-Davidson

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The Counseling Psychologist

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The current study examined how historical, social, and political contexts in their country of origin and their host country have influenced firstgeneration Asian Indians' racialized experiences in the United States. We conducted nine separate focus groups with a total of 50 first-generation Asian Indian participants (20 men and 30 women). In a semistructured interview, participants were asked about the factors that influence their perceptions of and coping with race-based discrimination. The data were analyzed using grounded theory. A theoretical model was developed based on factors that influence Asian Indian individuals' conceptualizations of racebased discrimination, the variables that influence their coping strategies, and the insights gained in coping with discrimination. Pre-and postimmigration experiences seem salient to race-based experiences of Asian Indians in the United States. Attempts at making meaning of Asian Indian race-based

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Section: Contextualizing Racial Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of Race-Based Discrimination Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States

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Tummala‐Narra

Kaduvettoor-Davidson

et al. 2015

The Counseling Psychologist

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“…Prejudice there is continually based upon gradations of skin color and affects all aspects of Cuban life, covertly and overtly (Canizares, 1990). Once they settled in the United States, immigrants from the various Latin American nations constantly seek ways to prove themselves white (Mazumdar, 1989). In the process, vehement forms of skin color prejudice are acted out against darker-skinned people of color, particularly African Americans.…”

Section: A Global Account Of Light Skinmentioning

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The Idealization of Light Skin as Vehicle of Social Pathogen vis-à-vis Bleaching Syndrome: Implications of Globalization for Human Behavior

Hall

2013

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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Globalization is manifested via idealization of light skin. On the basis of light skin as worldwide physiological ideal there evolved a prerequisite to enhanced quality of life. The result precipitated the bleaching syndrome as social pathogen among people of color. Western social work academies have been less privy as a result of its disqualification from public discourse. To educate social workers globally will require an acknowledgement of bleaching syndrome. In the aftermath of being informed, people of color and the Western social workers who serve them will move the profession to its next level of service technology.

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“…Cultural limitations and gender role conditioning combine to lead even highly educated and financially independent women to feel accountable to their spouses and families (Abraham, 2000). A woman who works outside the family is seen as doing this only as an extended fulfillment of her domestic duties, therefore any development of social ties with coworkers and friends is seen as unnecessary (Mazumdar, 1989). Similar patterns of thought may influence Chinese American communities as well.…”

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Domestic Violence in the Chinese and South Asian Immigrant Communities

Midlarsky

Venkataramani-Kothari

Plante

2006

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Although the Chinese and South Asian immigrant populations are largely silent on this issue, domestic violence is a fact of life in many families. In this article, we discuss cultural factors that may cause and prolong abuse in Asian immigrant homes, and review similarities and differences between the two Asian cultures in this regard. This article also addresses the psychological trauma experienced by abused Asian immigrant women and the coping strategies that they are likely to employ. Culturally sensitive intervention strategies are presented that may be appropriately used in working with Chinese and South Asian immigrant women for whom abuse is a terrifying and demeaning fact of life.

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Racist Responses to Racism: The Aryan Myth and South Asians in the United States

Cited by 19 publications

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Perceptions of Race-Based Discrimination Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States

Perceptions of Race-Based Discrimination Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States

The Idealization of Light Skin as Vehicle of Social Pathogen vis-à-vis Bleaching Syndrome: Implications of Globalization for Human Behavior

Domestic Violence in the Chinese and South Asian Immigrant Communities

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