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In this paper, I focus on the politics of race and ethnicity through a cross-national sample of twenty-five “second-generation” South Asian-American women who participated in a year-long feminist ethnographic project. I explore numerous topics related to ways in which in South Asians in America are racialized.
I find that the women sort themselves by contesting notions of race – “Asian” – and appropriating ethnic discourse – “Bengali.” Alongside the the term “Bengali,” the women in this study forge the label “South Asian” or “South Asian-American” as a critical identity. However, their refusal to identify solely as racial subjects does not mean the women wholly reject the existence of race, nor does it mean that they get to absolve themselves from racial categorization. Like some sociologists, the women use the “ethnicity paradigm” (Omi and Winant 1994, 15) to talk about race. What the women fail to acknowledge is that ethnic labels are part of racialization and racialization is a positioning process that takes place within a racial hierarchy (Bashi 1998, 960). And race is ascribed and not asserted (Cornell and Hartmann 1998; Bashi 1998); forging the label “South Asian” is just one example of what Omi and Winant (1994) call a racial project (56). Labels like “South Asian” or “South Asian-American” characterize a racialzing process and are racialized labels. South Asian-Americans do not have a choice between ethnicity and race. Rather, individuals have both ethnic and racial identities at the same time. The choice between ethnic and racial labels is a false one. |
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| Badruddoja, Roksana. "Racial and Ethnic Imaginary: “Second-Generation” South Asian-American Women & Projects of (Re-)Negotiation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p237199_index.html> |
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| Badruddoja, R. , 2008-07-31 "Racial and Ethnic Imaginary: “Second-Generation” South Asian-American Women & Projects of (Re-)Negotiation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p237199_index.html |
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Abstract: In this paper, I focus on the politics of race and ethnicity through a cross-national sample of twenty-five “second-generation” South Asian-American women who participated in a year-long feminist ethnographic project. I explore numerous topics related to ways in which in South Asians in America are racialized.
I find that the women sort themselves by contesting notions of race – “Asian” – and appropriating ethnic discourse – “Bengali.” Alongside the the term “Bengali,” the women in this study forge the label “South Asian” or “South Asian-American” as a critical identity. However, their refusal to identify solely as racial subjects does not mean the women wholly reject the existence of race, nor does it mean that they get to absolve themselves from racial categorization. Like some sociologists, the women use the “ethnicity paradigm” (Omi and Winant 1994, 15) to talk about race. What the women fail to acknowledge is that ethnic labels are part of racialization and racialization is a positioning process that takes place within a racial hierarchy (Bashi 1998, 960). And race is ascribed and not asserted (Cornell and Hartmann 1998; Bashi 1998); forging the label “South Asian” is just one example of what Omi and Winant (1994) call a racial project (56). Labels like “South Asian” or “South Asian-American” characterize a racialzing process and are racialized labels. South Asian-Americans do not have a choice between ethnicity and race. Rather, individuals have both ethnic and racial identities at the same time. The choice between ethnic and racial labels is a false one. |
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| Racial and Ethnic Imaginary: “Second-Generation” South Asian-American Women & Projects of (Re-)Negotiation In this paper I focus on the politics of race and ethnicity through a cross-national sample of twenty-five “second-generation” South Asian-American women who participated in a year- long feminist ethnographic project. I explore numerous topics related to ways in which in South Asians in America are racialized and the ways in which South Asian-Americans respond to U.S. racial projects including how the women in this study use |
| (Omi and Winant 1994 15) to talk about race. What the women fail to acknowledge is that ethnic labels are part of racialization and racialization is a positioning process that takes place within a racial hierarchy (Bashi 1998 960). And race is ascribed and not asserted (Cornell and Hartmann 1998; Bashi 1998); forging the label “South Asian” is just one example of what Omi and Winant (1994) call a racial project (56). Labels like “South Asian” or “South Asian-American” |
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