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Becoming American, Being Indian

Author : Madhulika S. Khandelwal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722026
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Becoming American, Being Indian written by Madhulika S. Khandelwal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changed—the highly educated professional elite who came to this country from the subcontinent in the 1960s has given way to a population encompassing many from the working and middle classes. In her fascinating account of Indian immigrants in New York City, Madhulika S. Khandelwal explores the ways in which their world has evolved over four decades.How did this highly diverse ethnic group form an identity and community? Drawing on her extensive interviews with immigrants, Khandelwal examines the transplanting of Indian culture onto the Manhattan and Queens landscapes. She considers festivals and media, food and dress, religious activities of followers of different faiths, work and class, gender and generational differences, and the emergence of a variety of associations.Khandelwal analyzes how this growing ethnic community has gradually become "more Indian," with a stronger religious focus, larger family networks, and increasingly traditional marriage patterns. She discusses as well the ways in which the American experience has altered the lives of her subjects.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316219304
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) written by Sherman Alexie and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Being Indian

Author : Pavan K. Varma
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143033424
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Being Indian written by Pavan K. Varma and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misconceptions About India And Indians Abound, Fed By The Stereotypes Created By Foreigners, And The Myths About Themselves Projected By Indians. In Being Indian, Pavan K.Varma Demolishes These Myths And Generalizations As He Turns His Sharply Observant Gaze On His Fellow Countrymen To Examine What Really Makes Indians Tick And What They Have To Offer The World In The 21St Century. Varma S Insightful Analysis Of The Indian Personality And The Culture That Has Created It Reaches Startling New Conclusions On The Paradoxes And Contradictions That Characterize Indian Attitudes Towards Issues Such As Power, Wealth And Spirituality. How, For Example, Does The Appalling Indifference Of Most Indians To The Suffering Of The Poor And The Inequities Of The Caste System Square With Their Enthusiastic Championing Of Parliamentary Democracy? The Book Also Examines India S Future Prospects As An Economic, Military And Technological Power, Providing Valuable Pointers To The Likely Destiny Of A Nation Of One Billion People. Drawing On Sources As Diverse As Ancient Sanskrit Treatises And Bollywood Lyrics, And Illuminating His Examples With A Wealth Of Telling Anecdotes, Pavan Varma Creates A Vivid And Compelling Portrait Of Indians As He Argues That They Will Survive And Flourish In The New Millennium Precisely Because Of What They Are, Warts And All, And Not Because Of What They Think They Are Or Would Like To Be. This Book, Which Will Stimulate Reflection, Discussion And Controversy, Is A Must Read For Both Foreigners Who Wish To Understand Indians And Indians Who Wish To Understand Themselves.

Being Indian in Hueyapan

Author : J. Friedlander
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601650
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Being Indian in Hueyapan written by J. Friedlander and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and updated edition, Judith Friedlander places her widely acclaimed work in historical context. The book describes the lives of the inhabitants of an indigenous pueblo during the late 1960s and early 1970s and analyzes the ways that Indians like them have been discriminated against since early colonial times.

Being Indian, Being Israeli

Author : Maina Chawla Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788173048395
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Being Indian, Being Israeli written by Maina Chawla Singh and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Jews of India has often been told by historians, anthropologists and sometimes by Indian Jews themselves recounting their family histories in India, the land of their birth over many generations. We know that Indian Jewish communities: the Bene Israelis in Bombay, Poona, Ahmedabad and Jabalpur, the Baghdadis in Calcutta and Bombay and the Kerala Jews in Cochin, Parur or Chendamangalam lived peacefully in pluralistic neighbourhoods experiencing no anti-semitism. However, when Israel was established, thousands of Indian Jews were inspired and like their cousins from other parts of the globe, migrated to the Jewish Homeland. Yet, today 60 years since the first Jewish families made aliya and migrated to Israel (1949), little is known about this community of 70,000 Indian Jews scattered across Israel. This book, for the first time, presents a deeply researched analysis of all three Jewish communities from India, studying them holistically as Indian-Israelis with shared histories of migration, acculturation and identity in the Jewish Homeland. Based on extensive fieldwork and ethnographic research conducted among Indian Jews across Israel between 2005-8, the book reflects the authors deep engagement and familiarity with Israeli society and the complexities of ethnicity and class that underlie the cleavages within Israeli Jewish society. The volume vividly captures the immigrant experiences of first-generation Indian Jewish men and women. The tapestry of these narratives and lived experiences is skilfully woven into theoretical insights illustrating how ethnicity, gender and class intersect with Jewish-ness to create complex identities of Being Indian and Being Israeli. The authors deep engagement with the Indian-Israeli community and her accessible style enrich this book for readers across a wide range of interests.

Let's Celebrate Being Indian-American

Author : Sharan Chahal-Jaswal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Let's Celebrate Being Indian-American written by Sharan Chahal-Jaswal and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Celebrate being Indian-American! Follow along as Suri takes you through a year of holidays, festivals, and celebrations with her family and best friend, Veer. Suri is a young girl who is American with Indian descent. Suri's pride in her roots and home show us the beauty and joy that multiculturalism brings to the world! Reading books that represent different beliefs, cultures, and skin colors help us all to learn, embrace, and celebrate differences. This book highlights some of the best parts of a culture, which are the holidays and festivals! About the Author: Sharan Chahal-Jaswal lives in Maryland with her 3-year-old daughter, Suri and her husband Rajiv. Before she started writing children's books, she got her master's degree in Counseling and Psychology. She is a licensed child therapist working in Baltimore, Maryland. Last year she earned her teacher certification in mindfulness and meditation. The entire family is a strong proponent in starting the day with morning meditation in order to help stay optimistic and focused. Sharan also enjoys spending time with family and friends, cooking, reading, painting, playing the harmonium, and learning to dance.Sharan takes pride in her culture and is always eager to share more about her roots with others. She was President of Culture Connection in high school, an active member of Indian Cultural Exchange at her University, and continued to be a member of the Indo-American Cultural Association in Maine and Maryland. Sharan is a big believer in embracing and celebrating different cultures. She also has an Indian cookbook for toddler meals coming out later this year!

What does it mean to be ‘Indian’?

Author : S.N. Balagangadhara, Sarika Rao
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1685097723
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book What does it mean to be ‘Indian’? written by S.N. Balagangadhara, Sarika Rao and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-09-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why ask this question today? After all, a lot is written about India, her culture, her past, her society, the psychology and sociology of individuals and groups. Why is that not enough? It is because what we have learnt so far is either false or fragmentary. If Indian culture is not a slightly inferior, slightly idiosyncratic variant of Western culture, as the received view has it for a very long time, what else is it? Research into culture and cultural differences gives novel and surprising answers. Written for an intelligent but lay public, this book shares the results of 40 years of scientific investigations in the research programme Comparative Science of Cultures. It transcends the political distinction between ‘the right’ and ‘the left’ by looking deeper into ideas on human beings, society, culture, experience, the past, impact of colonialism etc. Today, the question ‘What does it mean to be ‘Indian’?’ is both important and difficult to answer. Is there something ‘Indian’ about this culture that goes beyond the differences between Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs or Jains? What does it überhaupt mean to belong to Indian culture?

How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century

Author : Louis V. Clark (Two Shoes)
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870208160
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century written by Louis V. Clark (Two Shoes) and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In deceptively simple prose and verse, Louis V. "Two Shoes" Clark III shares his life story, from childhood on the Rez, through school and into the working world, and ultimately as an elder, grandfather, and published poet. How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century explores Clark’s deeply personal and profound take on a wide range of subjects, from schoolyard bullying to workplace racism to falling in love. Warm, plainspoken, and wryly funny, Clark’s is a unique voice talking frankly about a culture’s struggle to maintain its heritage. His poetic storytelling style matches the rhythm of the life he recounts, what he calls "the heartbeat of my nation."

On Being Indian: The Organic Intellectual, Mystical Poetry, and Lineages of Indian Rationalism

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Westland
ISBN 13 : 9357767932
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book On Being Indian: The Organic Intellectual, Mystical Poetry, and Lineages of Indian Rationalism written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Westland. This book was released on with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SHARP AND TIMELY ASSESSMENT OF WHAT THE PROTESTS OF 2020 SHOWED US ABOUT BEING INDIAN Originally a talk delivered at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, in February 2020, and then published as an essay in Social Research Quarterly the following year, On Being Indian is many things. On one level, it is a record of the various events and utterances that led up to and characterised the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India. On another level, it questions, and shows us the limited value of, dichotomies such as the secular and the religious. The protests were an occasion for these humanist binaries to be dismantled exuberantly, often by thinkers who emerged at the time not from academic institutions but from diverse walks of life. Part analysis, part intellectual and cultural history, part literary criticism, and part an impassioned expression of, and meditation on, what it means to ‘be Indian’, this long essay is an exploration of how such a critique might be written in a way that’s urgent but not journalistic; intellectually rigorous but not academic; political as well as imaginative.

Being an Indian Teenager

Author : Muskan Jha
Publisher : Literatureslight Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being an Indian Teenager written by Muskan Jha and published by Literatureslight Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world being a teenager is not really easy. There are different challenges that we have to face, decisions to make and roads to take. The people and the environment around us greatly affect the way we think and act as teenagers. Being a teenager can be hard but at the same time, it is fun. We daily face new experiences. At this point in our lives, we feel like we are neither children anymore nor really grown-ups too. Teenage as we all know is one of the most important and memorable period of a person's life. This is the period during which we face and feel a lot of things ranging from our changing physical appearance, increasing body weight, parents constantly comparing us to our friends and relatives, peer pressure, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and much more for the first time. 'Being an Indian Teenager' is an anthology containing stories, poems and articles from some established and some new writers. They have tried their best to portray every feeling and emotion that they have faced as Indian teenagers.

Bradford's Indian Book

Author : Betty Booth Donohue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813060880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Bradford's Indian Book written by Betty Booth Donohue and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers a powerful revisioning of the genesis of American literary history, revealing that from its earliest moments, American literature owes its distinctive shape and texture to the determining influence of indigenous thought and culture."--Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University "Partly a close, detailed analysis of the specific text and partly a broader analysis of Native identity, literary influences, and spiritual affiliation, the book makes a sophisticated and compelling claim for the way Indian influences permeate this Puritan text."--Hilary E. Wyss, Auburn University William Bradford, a leader among the Pilgrims, carefully recorded the voyage of the Mayflower and the daily life of Plymouth Colony in a work--part journal, part history--he titled Of Plimoth Plantation. This remarkable document is the authoritative chronicle of the Pilgrims' experiences as well as a powerful testament to the cultural and literary exchange that existed between the newly arrived Europeans and the Native Americans who were their neighbors and friends. It is well-documented that Native Americans lived within the confines of Plymouth Colony, and for a time Bradford shared a house with Tisquantum (Squanto), a Patuxet warrior and medicine man. In Bradford's Indian Book, Betty Booth Donohue traces the physical, intellectual, psychological, emotional, and theological interactions between New England's Native peoples and the European newcomers as manifested in the literary record. Donohue identifies American Indian poetics and rhetorical strategies as well as Native intellectual and ceremonial traditions present in the text. She also draws on ethnohistorical scholarship, consultation with tribal intellectuals, and her own experiences to examine the ways Bradford incorporated Native American philosophy and culture into his writing. Bradford's Indian Book promises to reshape and re-energize our understanding of standard canonical texts, reframing them within the intellectual and cultural traditions indigenous to the continent. Written partly in the Cherokee syllabary to express pan-Indian concepts that do not translate well to English, Donohue's invigorating, provocative analysis demonstrates how indigenous oral and thought traditions have influenced American literature from the very beginning down to the present day. Betty Booth Donohue is an independent scholar and a member of the Cherokee Nation.

Saving the Reservation

Author : John Fahey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295981536
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Saving the Reservation written by John Fahey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the turbulent Fifties, Congress moved aggressively to end federal supervision and support of Indians by abandoning long-standing treaties. As six-term president of the National Congress of American Indians, Joe Garry was a major power in forestalling wholesale dumping of Indian tribes. He championed an Indian program of holding onto the lands, honoring ancient cultures, educating the young, and developing economic independence. More than any other individual, Garry set in motion the forces that guide Indian relations today.

The Other One Percent

Author : Sanjoy Chakravorty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190648740
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Other One Percent written by Sanjoy Chakravorty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Other One Percent, Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh provide the first authoritative and systematic overview of South Asians living in the United States.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453274146
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee written by Dee Brown and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Being Different : An Different Challenge To Western Universalism

Author : Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9789351160502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Being Different : An Different Challenge To Western Universalism written by Rajiv Malhotra and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rajiv Malhotra's insistence on preserving difference with mutual respect - not with mere "tolerance" - is even more pertinent today because the notion of a single universalism is being propounded. There can be no single universalism, even if it assimilates or, in the author's words, "digests", elements from other civilizations' - Kapila Vatsyayan In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challenges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselves and each other. He highlights that while unique historical revelations are the basis for Western religions, dharma emphasizes self-realization in the body here and now. He also points out the integral unity that underpins dharma's metaphysics and contrasts this with Western thought and history as a synthetic unity. Erudite and engaging, Being Different critiques fashionable reductive translations and analyses the West's anxiety over difference and fixation for order which contrast the creative role of chaos in dharma. It concludes with a rebuttal of Western claims of universalism, while recommending a multi-civilizational worldview.

The Art of Being In-between

Author : Yanna Yannakakis
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822341666
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Being In-between written by Yanna Yannakakis and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAsks how elite native intermediaries conversant in Spanish language, legal rhetoric, and personal demeanor shaped the political and cultural landscape of colonialism./div

Gold Diggers

Author : Sanjena Sathian
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 198488204X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Gold Diggers written by Sanjena Sathian and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize “Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere “Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of 24-karat genius.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post How far would you go for a piece of the American dream? A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition. A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold—a “lemonade” that harnesses the ambition of the gold’s original owner—Neil sees his chance to get ahead. But events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Years later in the Bay Area, Neil still bristles against his community's expectations—and finds he might need one more hit of that lemonade, no matter the cost. Sanjena Sathian’s astonishing debut offers a fine-grained, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly funny investigation into what's required to make it in America. Soon to be a series produced by Mindy Kaling!