South Asian American History, Life & Values
(see also India, Pakistan, Asian American History, Life & Values: General & Asian American Movements)
Basics
This section includes, for comparative purposes, material on the South Asian diaspora to Britain & other English-speaking countries.
On the Web: Articles
The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF & the American Funding of Hindutva
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA).
Badmash. Comic commentary.
Bangalinet. Worldwide Bengali Associations site.
EKTA: South Asian Progressive Network.
DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving).
South Asian Women's Organizations (SAWNET).
Telugu Association of North America (TANA).
In the Library: Articles
Duque, Isabel; Kiran Saxena & José Silvestre Revuelatas. "Encuentro entre sikhs y mexicanos: paralelo 48," in E.A. Uchmany (ed.) México-India: Similitudes y encuentros a través de la historia (México, 1998), pp. 138-55.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Cooking lessons: the long way home," New Yorker (9/6/04):83-84.
Lahr, John. "Whirlwind: how filmmaker Mira Nair makes people see the world her way," New Yorker (12/9?02):100-09.
Reang, Putsata. "Women break barriers for toxic-spill safeguard," San Jose Mercury (5/18/03):6B.
Tohid, Owais. "Pakistanis abroad trick daughters into marriage," Chistian Science Monitor (5/15/03):1,7.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Ghai, ? (ed.) Portrait of a Minority (NY: Oxford, 19??)
Goodyear, Sara Suleri. Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy (Chicago: U. of Chicago, 2003).
Isaacs, Harold R. Scratches on Our Minds (NY: John Day, 1958; reissued as Images of Asia: American Views of China & India (NY: Harper & Row, 1972).
Jensen, Joan M. Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in North America (New Haven: Yale, 1988).
Juergensmeyer, Mark. The Ghadar Syndrome: Nationalism in an Immigrant Community (Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev U, 1977).
Kalita, Mitra S. Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families & Their Passage from India to America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers,2003).
Leonard, Karen Isaksen. Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans (Philadelphia, 1992).
__________.The South Asian Americans (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1997).
Maira, Sunaina & Rajini Srikanth (eds.) Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (NY: Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1996).
__________. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City (Philadelphia: Temple, 2002).
Majumdar, Debu. From the Ganges to the Snake River (Caldwell ID: Claxton, 2000).
Melendy, H. Brett. Asians in America: Filipinos, Koreans, & East Indians (Boston: Twayne, 1977).
Prashad, Vijay. The Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 2000).
__________. Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections & the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon, 2001).
Raj, Dhooleka S. Where Are You From? Middle-Class Migrants in the Modern World (Berkeley: U. of California, 2003).
Rangaswamy, Padma. Namaste America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis (University Park: Pennsylvania State U., 2003).
Saran, Parmatma & Edwin Eames (eds.) The New Ethnics. Asian Indians in the US (NY: Praeger, 1980).
Shankar, Lavina Dhingra & Rajini Srikanth (eds.) A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America (Philadelphia: Temple, 1998).
Takaki, Ronald T. India in the West: South Asians in America (NY: Chelsea House, 1995).
Tatla, Darshan Singh. The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood (Seattle: U. Washington, 1999).
In the Library: Fiction
Desai, Anita. Fasting, Feasting (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Arranged Marriage: Stories (NY: Anchor, 1996).
__________. The Mistress of Spices (NY: Anchor, 1998).
__________. The Vine of Desire (NY: Doubleday, 1999).
__________. The Unknown Errors of Our Lives: Stories (NY: Doubleday, 2001).
__________. Queen of Dreams (NY: Doubleday, 2004).
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies: Stories (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
Nair, Meera. Video: Stories (NY: Pantheon, 2003).
Mukherjee, Bharati. Wife (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975).
__________. Darkness (NY: Penguin, 1985).
__________. The Middleman & Other Stories (NY: Grove, 1988).
__________. Jasmine (NY: Ballantine, 1989).
__________. Leave It To Me (NY: Knopf, 1997).
__________. Desirable Daughters (
Sidhwa, Bapsi. The Bride (NY: St. Martin's, 1983).
In the Library: For Young Readers
Hidier, Tanuja. Desai Boon Confused (NY: Push, 2002).
In the Library: Poetry
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Leaving Yuba City: New & Selected Poems (NY: Anchor, 1997).
__________. Black Candle: Poems About Women from India, Pakistan & Bangladesh (Corvallis OR: Calyx, 2000).
In the Library: Drama
Wajahat, Ali. The Domestic Crusaders (?:?, 2005). Three generations of a Pakistani family in the US.
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Bharati Mukerjee: Conquering America" [1990], dir. Gail Pellett, 30m. From Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
"Desi: South Asians in New York" [2002], dir. Alazen Glazen & Shebana Coelho, 58m. From PBS Video.
"Hollywood/Bollywood" [2002], dir. Deepa Mehta, ?m. Post-modern love affair between Indo-Canadians.
"Mississippi Masala" [1991], dir. Mira Nair, 118m. In video stores. Ugandan Gujeratis transplanted to motel business in American South.
"My Own Country" [1998], dir. Mira Nair, 95m. In video stores. Based on immigrant Abraham Vergese's story about working as an AIDS doctor in Johnson City, Tennessee.
"Sam & Me" [1991], dir. Deepa Mehta, 94m. Young Indian immigrant to Canada befriends elderly Jewish man.
"So Far from India" [1982], dir. Mira Nair, 49m. From Filmakers Library. Documentary.