Author's Keywords: South Asian-American, production and consumption of (authentic) culture, globalization, white gaze, oppositional active whiteness, assimilatory practice	Convention All Academic Convention makes running your annual conference simple and cost effective. It is your online solution for abstract management, peer review, and scheduling for your annual meeting or convention. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Badruddoja, Roksana. "Second-Generation South Asian-American Women, Territories of the Self, and the Power of Hegemony (or Not): (Authentic) Cultural Production and Consumption as Sites of Visibility and Invisibility" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 11, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p94414_index.html>

Badruddoja, R. B. , 2006-08-11 "Second-Generation South Asian-American Women, Territories of the Self, and the Power of Hegemony (or Not): (Authentic) Cultural Production and Consumption as Sites of Visibility and Invisibility" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p94414_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In this paper, I focus on the history of the transatlantic movements of South Asians to propose that the social production of space is characterized by disciplinary category work to limit people�s movements. Therefore, through various spaces of cathexis like language, holidays, religion, food, and clothing, second-generation South Asian-American women validate the categories that define human invisibility in public spaces. They protect themselves by adapting the banal norms of public behavior through �appropriate� dress and gait. Women also use their education, class, and immigration status to avoid the white gaze. In contrast, the U.S.-South Asian migration is additionally a project which involves contradictory and ambivalent historical and nationalist narratives. Hence, not surprisingly, language, holidays, religion, food, and clothing are also spaces of cathexis for visibility; several oppositional identifications are produced simultaneously by South Asian-American women. Here, repeatedly, the question of production and consumption of authentic culture becomes a pivotal topic. This article addresses the acceptance of, manipulation of, and resistance to hegemonic power by an often invisible and marginalized group of people: second-generation South Asian-American women. I accomplish this by presenting partial data from a six-month long (feminist) ethnographic study with a cross-national sample of 25 women.

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