American Karma by Sunil Bhatia
The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the US. Its members are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. This title explores how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society.-
Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond
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Qualitative Data
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Living Outside Mental Illness
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Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone
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Control
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Living with Brain Injury
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Pride in the Projects
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Voicing Chicana Feminisms
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Situating Sadness
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Flirting with Danger
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Voted Out
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Inner City Kids
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Muslim American Youth
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Negotiating Consent in Psychotherapy
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Gay Dads
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Corridor Cultures
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Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality
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Growing Up Girl
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Violent Accounts
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Everyday Courage
A productive move in developing new directions in the study of desire, agency, and ambiguous inequality among immigrant populations in the contemporary Americas- Aisha Khan,New York University Effectively blends identity theory and ethnography to examine the immigrant experience of first-generation, professional Indians. Provoking reflection on the racial dynamics and identity politics of American society, this work goes a long way towards humanizing what it means to be an immigrant in the United States. - Cynthia Lightfoot,Penn State University, Delaware County Offers a new framework to examine selfhood and self identity in the context of immigration. (India New England) Bhatia offers a well historicised, theoretically astute analysis of the racial, cultural and ethnic identities of Indian immigrants and their families living in predominantly white suburbs of New England. (South Asian Diaspora)
Sunil Bhatia is Associate Professor of Human Development at Connecticut College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814799581 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814799582 |
| Title | American Karma |
| Author | Sunil Bhatia |
| Series | Qualitative Studies In Psychology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | New York University Press |
| Year published | 2007-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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