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Badruddoja, Roksana. "Resisting the White Pole - A Feminist Ethnographic Study: Second-Generation South Asian-American Women, U.S. Racialization Projects, and the Arranged Marriage" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 10, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p94412_index.html>

Badruddoja, R. B. , 2006-08-10 "Resisting the White Pole - A Feminist Ethnographic Study: Second-Generation South Asian-American Women, U.S. Racialization Projects, and the Arranged Marriage" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p94412_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper focuses on the history of the transatlantic movements of South Asians to the U.S. to propose that the social production of space is characterized by disciplinary category work, limiting people’s movements. Through various spaces of cathexis like language, religion, clothing, and marriage second-generation South Asian-American women validate the categories that define human invisibility in public spaces. I focus only on marriage practices in this article to showcase women’s active efforts towards invisibility to avoid the white gaze. One of the ways they protect themselves is by adopting banal, Hollywood romance stories to describe how they met their partners. In contrast, the U.S.-South Asian migration is additionally a project which involves contradictory and ambivalent historical and nationalist narratives. Therefore, not surprisingly, marriage is also a space of cathexis for visibility to challenge the white voyeur; several oppositional identifications are produced simultaneously by South Asian-American women as they recount stories about their involvement in the South Asian “arranged marriage” system to meet their significant others. This article addresses the acceptance of, manipulation of, and resistance to white hegemonic power by an often invisible and marginalized group of people, second-generation South Asian-American women. I do this by presenting partial data from a six-month-long ethnographic study with a cross-national sample of twenty-five second-generation South Asian-American women, exploring the perceptions of women about daily social practices in the U.S. and how they view themselves in comparison to broader American society.

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Second-Generation South Asian-American Women, U.S. Racialization Projects, and the Arranged Marriage : A Feminist Ethnographic Study