The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity
On the Racial Sidelines
Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
Indian immigrants immigration racial capitalism racial subjectivity racialization racialized labor identity formation- 1–32 Introduction 1–32
- 147–168 A Call to Action 147–168
- 169–174 Conclusion 169–174
- 175–184 References 175–184
- 185–196 Index 185–196
- 197–198 About the Author 197–198