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New Roots in America's Sacred Ground: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in Indian America

New Roots in America's Sacred Ground: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in Indian America

Joshi, Khyati Y.

Paperback

AnthropologyAsian American Studies

ISBN10: 0813538017
ISBN13: 9780813538013
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: May 23 2006
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this compelling look at second-generation Indian Americans, Khyati Y. Joshi draws on case studies and interviews with forty-one second-generation Indian Americans, analyzing their experiences involving religion, race, and ethnicity from elementary school to adulthood. As she maps the crossroads they encounter as they navigate between their homes and the wider American milieu, Joshi shows how their identities have developed differently from their parents' and their non-Indian peers' and how religion often exerted a dramatic effect.

The experiences of Joshi's research participants reveal how race and religion interact, intersect, and affect each other in a society where Christianity and whiteness are the norm. Joshi shows how religion is racialized for Indian Americans and offers important insights in the wake of 9/11 and the backlash against Americans who look Middle Eastern and South Asian.

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