Becoming American, Being Indian An Immigrant Community in New York City
Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City

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 give...

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1. Verfasser: Khandelwal, Madhulika S. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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Asian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Ethnic identity
East Indian Americans > Cultural assimilation > New York (State) > New York
East Indian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Ethnic identity
East Indian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions
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Ethnische Identität
New York, NY
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 2 maps, 12 halftones, 4 tables
ISBN:9781501722028

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