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The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power

The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power

The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power

The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power

Overview

The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations, the contributors present a more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States.

Tracking the changes in global power that have influenced the paths and experiences of migrants, from expatriate Indian maritime workers at the turn of the century, to Indian nurses during the Cold War, to post-9/11 detainees and deportees caught in the crossfire of the "War on Terror," these essays reveal how the South Asian diaspora has been shaped by the contours of U.S. imperialism. Driven by a shared sense of responsibility among the contributing scholars to alter the profile of South Asian migrants in the American public imagination, they address the key issues that impact these migrants in the U.S., on the subcontinent, and in circuits of the transnational economy. Taken together, these essays provide tools with which to understand the contemporary political and economic conjuncture and the place of South Asian migrants within it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814786437
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 07/22/2013
Series: NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis , #2
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Vivek Bald is Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America.

Miabi Chatterji received her PhD from New York Universityin American Studies. She serves on the Board of Directors of the RESIST Foundation and works with non-profit organizations such as NYUFASP, a group of NYU faculty working for shared governance at their institution.

Sujani Reddy is Five College Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the Department of American Studies at Amherst College.

Manu Vimalassery is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University.

Vijay Prashad is author of Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery
Part I. Overlapping Empires
1 Intimate Dependency, Race, and Trans-Imperial Migration
Nayan Shah
2 Repressing the “Hindu Menace”
Seema Sohi
3 Desertion and Sedition
Vivek Bald
4 “The Hidden Hand”
Sujani Reddy
Part II. From Imperialism to Free-Market Fundamentalism
5 Putting “the Family” to Work
Miabi Chatterji
6 Looking Home
Linta Varghese
7 India’s Global and Internal Labor Migration and Resistance
Immanuel Ness
8 Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola
Amanda Ciafone
9 When an Interpreter Could Not Be Found
Naeem Mohaiemen
Part III. Geographies of Migration, Settlement, and Self
10 Intertwined Violence: Implications of State Responses to Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Communities
Soniya Munshi
11 Who’s Your Daddy? Queer Diasporic Framings of the Region
Gayatri Gopinath
12 Awaiting the Twelfth Imam in the United States
Raza Mir and Farah Hasan
13 Tracing the Muslim Body
Junaid Rana
14 Antecedents of Imperial Incarceration
Manu Vimalassery
Afterword
Vijay Prashad
Index
About the Contributors

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