Shankar Shalini Shankar

Desi Land (eBook, PDF)

Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley

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Produktbeschreibung

Desi Land is Shalini Shankar's lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or "e;Desis,"e; define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology. Between 1999 and 2001 Shankar spent many months "e;kickin' it"e; with Desi teenagers at three Silicon Valley high schools, and she has since followed their lives and stories. The diverse high-school students who populate Desi Land are Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs, from South Asia and other locations; they include first- to fourth-generation immigrants whose parents' careers vary from assembly-line workers to engineers and CEOs. By analyzing how Desi teens' conceptions and realizations of success are influenced by community values, cultural practices, language use, and material culture, she offers a nuanced portrait of diasporic formations in a transforming urban region.Whether discussing instant messaging or arranged marriages, Desi bling or the pressures of the model minority myth, Shankar foregrounds the teens' voices, perspectives, and stories. She investigates how Desi teens interact with dialogue and songs from Bollywood films as well as how they use their heritage language in ways that inform local meanings of ethnicity while they also connect to a broader South Asian diasporic consciousness. She analyzes how teens negotiate rules about dating and reconcile them with their longer-term desire to become adult members of their communities. In Desi Land Shankar not only shows how Desi teens of different socioeconomic backgrounds are differently able to succeed in Silicon Valley schools and economies but also how such variance affects meanings of race, class, and community for South Asian Americans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822389231
• Artikelnr.: 54815028

Autorenporträt

Shalini Shankar

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Welcome to Desi Land 1
1. California, Here We Come, Right Back Where We Started From 25
2. Defining Desi Teen Culture 53
3. Living and Desiring Desi Bling Life 80
4. Desi Fashions of Speaking 100
5. Being FOBulous on Multicultural Day 119
6. Remodeling the Model Minority Stereotype 142
7. Dating on the DL and Arranged Marriages 167
8. In the New Millennium 193
Postscript 211
Appendix 1: Student Interview 213
Appendix 2: Faculty Interview 218
Appendix 3: Parent and Relative Interview 220
Appendix 4: Student Survey 223
Notes 225
Glossary of Hindi and Punjabi Terms 237
Bibliography 239
Index 263