FYI: New Book -- Indians in America : One Stream, Two Waves, Three Generations
Unmesh Sheth
Stream, Two Waves, Three Generations (http://www.geocities.com/unmesh). This
is a first book that covers many important topics at the heart of Indians
living abroad. Our primary goal is to bring this book to attention of every
Indians living abroad, or someone interested in immigration identity and
cultural assimilation.
Hardcover pages-457
ISBN 81-7033-638-4
price: $40 Take 20% discount
Indians in America : One Stream, Two Waves, Three Generations
Indians in America have emerged as one of the most dynamic immigrant
communities in the American mosaic.
This book narrates their diasporic saga covering pre-1950 stream,
and two waves (post-1965, and 1980), and profiles the three generations. It
examines the gaps in the perceptions and priorities of the first generation
parents, their second-generation children, and the elderly on the basis of
empirical data. It also examines the complex relationship pattern of the
emerging new Indian woman in the family as well as the latent phenomenon of
domestic violence.
The book also evinces how religion and ethico-cultural movements
like Swadhyaya and Swaminarayana, performing arts, and movies are helping in
the preservation of Indian culture, and in the process of identity
formation. Also, their increasing role and influence in the American
political process, and the emergence of a group of entrepreneurs dominating
in the hi-tech, hotel and medical fields are documented. The book is based
mainly on the empirical data collected through the methodology of,
questionnaires, snowball surveys, interviews, personal narratives,
participation-observation, and reference to immigration literature. States
the author, "The challenges of identity and assimilation on one side, and
more significantly, the simultaneity of such two phenomena of diasporic
achievement and social transformation within the first generation are
unheard of in the cultural history of America-and perhaps, in the human
history."
The first of its kind giving a comprehensive study of the Indian
Diaspora in America, this book will prove to be of great value to the Indian
American community, and to the students of Diaspora with a focus on this
community. So also, those interested in studying the issues of identity and
cultural assimilation, immigration history, and multiculturalism will find
it immensely useful.
Table of Contents
1. Indian Diaspora: Major Trends
2. Two Generations: Profile and Interface
3. The Elderly: Kaleidoscopic Patterns
4. Women: Stereotypes and Beyond
5. Religion: Tradition through Modernity
6. The Ethico-cultural Movements
7. Voice of a Culture
8.Major Representative Organizations
9. The Patel-Motel Model
10. Gujaratis: The Prominent Community
11. Punjabis: The Pioneer Immigrants
12. In the Political Process
13. Making Waves: Indo-American Inc.!
14. Review and Reflections