Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:21:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Lisa Suhair Majaj <lisa-AT-alquds.org>
Subject: CFP: South Asian Diaspora in U.S. -- 1997 ASA Panel (fwd)



I thought perhaps this might of interest. Lisa Majaj
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Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:07:39 -0400
From: Sarah E. Chinn <sec8-AT-columbia.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list H-AMSTDY <H-AMSTDY-AT-MSU.EDU>
Subject: CFP: South Asian Diaspora in U.S. -- 1997 ASA Panel

Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 20:10:58 -0600
From: Siva Vaidhyanathan <SIVAV-AT-utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>


Proposal for a session at the 1997 annual meeting of the American Studies
Association


Hoping, Coping and Thriving: Cultural Strategies from the South Asian Diaspora.


>From what was recently a handful of atomized families scattered across the
continent, identifiable South Asian communities have precipitated in many
urban and suburban centers. Once alien Tamil and Gujurati families now
intermarry, start businesses and play tennis together. Parents struggle to
retain some cultural identity in their American children. Strings of South
Asian-owned businesses have sprouted throughout the Southwest. India
associations operate as political, cultural and economic meeting places for
members of remarkably diverse communities.

Papers for this session would examine institutions and cultural productions
that South Asian families have invented and adapted since migrating to the
United States and Canada.

Please send abstracts and CVs to:

Siva Vaidhyanathan
American Studies Department
303 Garrison Hall
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712.

E-mail: SIVAV-AT-UTXVMS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU.