Negotiating ethnicity second-generation South Asian Americans traverse a transnational world /

Purkayastha, Bandana, 1956-

Negotiating ethnicity second-generation South Asian Americans traverse a transnational world / [electronic resource] : Bandana Purkayastha. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005. - 220 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Racial boundaries and ethnic binds -- Maintaining meaningful connections -- Constructing ethnic boundaries : negotiations and conflicts over gender, religion, race, and nationality -- Ethnic consumption -- Sifting through "tradition" -- Bridges and chasms.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






South Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.
South Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.


Electronic books.

E184.S69 / P87 2005

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