Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America Contributor(s): Gupta-Carlson, Himanee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252041828 ISBN-13: 9780252041822 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
Dewey: 305.800 |
LCCN: 2017031763 |
Series: Asian American Experience |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (2.02 lbs) 238 pages |
Themes: - Locality - Muncie, Indiana - Geographic Orientation - Indiana - Ethnic Orientation - Indian - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the image of so-called typical communities across the United States on an illusion. Their decades of studies ignored the racial, ethnic, and religious diversity and tensions woven into the American communities that Muncie supposedly embodied. Himanee Gupta-Carlson puts forth an essential question: what do nonwhites, non-Christians, and/or non-natives mean when they call themselves American? A daughter in one of Muncie's first Indian American families, Gupta-Carlson merges personal experience, the life histories of others, and critical analysis to explore the answers. Her stories of members of Muncie's South Asian communities unearth the silences imposed by past studies while challenging the body of scholarship in fundamental ways. At the same time, Gupta-Carlson shares personal memories and experiences that illuminate her place within the historical, political, and socio-cultural currents she engages in her work. It also reveals how that work informs and transforms her as a scholar and a person. As meditative as it is insightful, Muncie, India(na) invites readers to feel the truth of the fascinating stories behind one woman's revised portrait of an American community. |