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The Quixotic Search for South Asian Media Representation

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Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix series raises a vexing question: even if we agree that representation matters, what counts as good representation?

Aditya Desai May 27, 2020 Asian American history, Asian Americans, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, class, media studies, Popular culture, television

South Asian American Femininity: Who Can Play?

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The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian […]

desiballer April 27, 2015 Asian American history, Asian Americans, Atlanta, basketball, book excerpt, excerpts, gender, sports, the South, theory

Karachi: A Sensory History

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Karachi is one of the world’s largest cities—by some measures, the second largest in terms of population, and […]

Alex Sayf Cummings January 16, 2015 Pakistan, sensory history, South Asia, transportation, travel, urban studies

Reading Racecraft in Atlanta

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There’s a joke that everyone in New York who’s reading a book in public is just doing it […]

Alex Sayf Cummings October 3, 2013 American Studies, Atlanta, historiography, Islam, race, whiteness
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