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National (un)belonging : Bengali American women on imagining and contesting culture and identity / by Roksana Badruddoja.
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Badruddoja, Roksana
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English
Published/Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Description
xiii, 172 ; 25 cm.
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E184.B26 B33 2022
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Bengali Americans
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Women
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United States
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Social conditions
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Bengali Americans
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Women
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Cultural assimilation
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United States
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Children of immigrants
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United States
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Bengali Americans
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Ethnic identity
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Bengali Americans
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Race identity
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Series
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 222.
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Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 222
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Summary note
"In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity, Roksana Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary "second-generation" Bengali American women. Badruddoja engages in a yearlong feminist ethnographic study with a nationwide sample of 25 women in the U.S. to poignantly explore perceptions about daily social and cultural practices. Exploring the conceptual and theoretical perspectives of the social, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of transnational migrations, Badruddoja interrogates assimilation to depict the messy nature of diasporic travels and the resulting complexities of diasporic identities. Badruddoja demonstrates racialized identities are often part of a constellation of loyalties that are multiple, contradictory, constantly shifting, and overlapping"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword : telling America's whole story
The Cheshire Cat : vexing identities
Impossible subjects : (re)collecting South Asian American Im/migration
From research to process : social research, feminist scholarship, and women's subjectivities
Racial and ethnic imaginary : projects of (re)negotiation
Patrolling the cultural fences : community place-making
Territories of the self : language, holidays, religion, food, and clothing
Project of "home" : "where are you from?"
Cultural autonomy : boundaries of marriage
Tropologies of queerness : sexuality, family, and culture
Consolidation of the American nation-state : South Asian diasporic fiction
Contesting the unitary self : the ABCD conundrum and sites of intervention.
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National unbelonging
Bengali American women on imagining and contesting culture and identity
ISBN
9789004512870
900451287X (hardcover)
LCCN
2022022271
OCLC
1303080505
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