Session 4: May 5, 2023 [click here for slides]

Readings

• Mohabir, Rajiv. Antiman: a Hybrid Memoir. NY: Restless Books, 2021 [excerpts, “Author’s Note” through “My Eyes Are Clouds” (pp. xix–26) + “Antiman” (pp. 115–35) available in Seminar Dropbox folder]
• Dhillon, Hardeep. “Whitewashing Caste: How Indian immigrants used religion and caste to naturalise as White in the U.S.” Caravan, January 31, 2023 [PDF available in Seminar Dropbox folder]

Watch

• “Black & Asian Solidarity in NYC: What We’ve Learned” [especially from 5:13-46:20, but the whole video is recommended!]

Recommended Readings

• Day, Iyko “Settler Colonialism in Asian North American Representation,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, published September 26, 2018
• Sharma, Nitasha Tamar. “Brown” ” in Keywords for Asian American Studies, edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong. NY: NYU Press, 2015. [full essay in e-book]
• Hu-Dehart, Evelyn. “Diaspora” in Keywords for Asian American Studies, edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong. NY: NYU Press, 2015.

Additional Texts

Black and Asian Solidarities 

• Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, “Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities,” Asian American Writers’s Workshop
• ——.”BLACK AND ASIAN-AMERICAN FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES: A READING LIST,” 2019
• Nopper, Tamara. “On Inheritances: Examining Contemporary Anti-Asian Violence and Black-Asian Solidarity.” Ethnic Studies Review  44: 2, 2021,  27–40, and/or watch video of lecture 
• Prashad,  Vijay. The Karma of Brown Folk. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
• Reddy, Vanita and Anantha Sudhakar (Editors). “Feminist and Queer Afro-Asian Formations,” The Scholar and Feminist Online, 14:3, 2018
• Sharma, Nitasha. “The Racial Studies Project: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus” from Flashpoints for Asian American Studies. NY: Fordham University Press, 2017.

 

Settler Colonialism and Asian Americans

• Day, Iyko.  Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
• Pegues, Juliana Hu. Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements  Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
• Saranillio, Dean Itsuji. “Why Asian settler colonialism matters: a thought piece on critiques, debates, and Indigenous difference” Settler Colonial Studies , 3:3-4, 2013.
• Trask, Haunani Kay. “The Color of Violence,” Social Justice,  31: 4, 2004, pp. 8-16

 

Indo-Caribbean Diasporas

• Mohabir, Rajiv.  “Why I Will Never Celebrate Indian Arrival Day.” AWW’s The Margins, June 2, 2016. 
• Bahadur, Gaiutra. Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• ——.”How could I write about women whose existence is barely acknowledged.” The Guardian, June 14, 2016.

 

Caste

• Bakrania, Falu. “Casteing White Supremacy: Thind, Cisco and the Politics of Belonging.” forthcoming in Ethnic Studies Review: One Century After Thind, eds. Linta Varghese and Soniya Munshi, 2023.
• Equality Labs. “Caste in the United States: A Survey of Caste Among South Asian Americans,” 2018.
• Ghoshal, Sayori. “Race in South Asia: Colonialism, nationalism and modern science.” History Compass, 19:2, 2021,  e12647.
• Natrajan, Balmurli. “Racialization and ethnicization: Hindutva hegemony and caste.” 45:2, 2022, 298-318.
• Soundararajan, Thenmozhi. The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition. NY: Penguin, 2022. [E-book available in Seminar Dropbox folder]
• Teltumbde, Anand.  Dalits: Past, Present and Future. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2020.
• ——. “Globalisation and Caste.” Voice of Dalit, 3:2, 2010, 101–138.
• Yengde, Suraj. “Global Castes,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45: 2, 2022.