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American Karma : Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora.
The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Qualitative studies in psychology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into "people of color." Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these transnational immigrants thems |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (284 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814723111 081472311X |