The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity
On the Racial Sidelines- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2022
Summary
In The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines, Kavitha Koshy offers a timely exploration of Indian immigrant racialization at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is a call to action for an anti-racist, decolonial practice among differentially racialized peoples. The findings of the research uncover the paradoxes of claiming deracialized, neoliberal identities, while engaging in racial contestation, benefiting from selective immigration while occupying a racialized-human capital-labor "slot" in global capitalism, and experiencing "racialized otherness" through everyday racism, despite proximity to whiteness. Koshy develops a typology of Indian immigrant racialized subjectivity amid anti-Blackness, whiteness, caste-ness, Islamophobia, "forever foreignness," and neoliberal logic.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-7936-4372-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-7936-4373-5
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 198
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 32
- Racialized Otherness No access Pages 33 - 60
- The Paradoxes of a Middling Status No access Pages 61 - 86
- Complicit in Whiteness No access Pages 87 - 110
- The Disidentifiers and Relationals No access Pages 111 - 146
- A Call to Action No access Pages 147 - 168
- Conclusion No access Pages 169 - 174
- References No access Pages 175 - 184
- Index No access Pages 185 - 196
- About the Author No access Pages 197 - 198





