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In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity, Roksana Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary “second-generation” Bengali American women. Badruddoja engages in a yearlong feminist ethnographic study with a nationwide sample of 25 women in the U.S. to poignantly explore perceptions about daily social and cultural practices. Exploring the conceptual and theoretical perspectives of the social, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of transnational migrations, Badruddoja interrogates assimilation to depict the messy nature of diasporic movement and the resulting complexities of diasporic identities. Badruddoja demonstrates racialized identities are often part of a constellation of loyalties that are multiple, contradictory, constantly shifting, and overlapping
Price: $145.00
Pages: 174
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Publication Date:
21 July 2022
ISBN: 9789004512870
Format: Hardcover
"Badruddoja problematises the dichotomy of how the South Asian diaspora is represented or self-represented through binaries of ‘Americanness’ and ‘South Asianness’ – us versus them – and so on. She scrutinises the South Asia diaspora from both within and outside the diasporic community through the experiences of the respondents. The book analyses the South Asian American women’s identities beyond the binaries of assimilation and integration. The innovative and flexible ways in which the respondents in the book construct and reconstruct their identities provide a unique perspective into the contemporary South Asian Bengali diasporic women in the US. The intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, diasporic, and religious identities play a critical part in defining as well as redefining the identities and self-representations of these diasporic women." - Anindita Shome, VIT-AP University, in: South Asian Diaspora (2023)
Roksana Badruddoja, Ph.D. (2007), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is Chair and Professor of Sociology at Manhattan College, Bronx.