The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines

By Kavitha Koshy

In The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines, Kavitha Koshy offers a timely exploration of Indian immigrant racialization at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is a call to action for an anti-racist, decolonial practice among differentially racialized peoples. The findings of the research uncover the paradoxes of claiming deracialized, neoliberal identities, while engaging in racial contestation, benefiting from selective immigration while occupying a racialized-human capital-labor "slot" in global capitalism, and experiencing "racialized otherness" through everyday racism, despite proximity to whiteness. Koshy develops a typology of Indian immigrant racialized subjectivity amid anti-Blackness, whiteness, caste-ness, Islamophobia, "forever foreignness," and neoliberal logic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793643725
• ISBN13: 9781793643728
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"