Introduction: Framing Complicity
Chapter One: Racialized Otherness
Chapter Two: The Paradoxes of a Middling Status
Chapter Three: Complicit in Whiteness
Chapter Four: The Disidentifiers and Relationals—Racialized Immigrant Subjectivity
Chapter Five: A Call to Action—Where Our Paths Cross
Conclusion: Race in Conversation
Kavitha Koshy is lecturer in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and sociology at California State University, Long Beach.
"Koshy writes a powerfully insightful history of the deliberate
entanglement of racialized immigration policies, racial capitalism,
and neoliberalism that has constructed Indians in the United States
as a 'model minority' on the racial sidelines. Extending Vijay
Prashad's pointed question to this model minority, 'How does it
feel to be the solution?' Koshy asks in the contemporary context of
increased South Asian presence in public culture, 'What does it
mean to take up too much space?' Koshy's book unflinchingly
challenges Indian immigrants in the United States to come to terms
with their own complicity with whiteness by tracing the resonances
between histories of colonialism, the foundations of a
post-colonial society that failed to decenter caste, and the rise
of authoritarian nationalism in India with settler colonialism,
slavery, liberal multiculturalism, and neoliberalism in the United
States. The task, she contends, is to continue to build on a
decolonial ethic as the ground to 'make space' and build
solidarities. An important read!"
"This marvelous book enters and illuminates the complex project of
antiracist work with verve and delicacy. Kavitha Koshy traverses
new and exciting debates on racialization, immigration, labor,
community, identity, and activism to present us with a rich
structural analysis, an original historical framework, and an
exhilarating call to action. This book is a superb assessment of
the 'sidelines, ' which as Koshy shows, trap far too many Indian
Americans from identifying and engaging with the very conditions
that limit us."
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