Monisha Das Gupta

Unruly Immigrants

Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography of feminist, queer, and labor organizing in South Asian communities showing the intersections between culture, identity, and social transformation-oriented politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338581
• ISBN-10: 0822338580
• Artikelnr.: 21784347

Autorenporträt

Monisha Das Gupta is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Hawai’i.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Encounters 1
1. Terms of Belonging 27
2. Contests over Culture 56
3. Law and Oppression 82
4. “Owning Our Lives”: Women’s Organizations 109
5. Subverting Seductions: Queer Organizations 159
6. “Know Your Place in History”: Labor Organizations 208
Conclusion 237
Notes 261
Works Cited 275
Index 299