Papers by Himanee Gupta-Carlson
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This chapter discusses the relationship between South Asian immigration and labor in the late twe... more This chapter discusses the relationship between South Asian immigration and labor in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It analyzes experiences of two Indian Americans in Muncie, Indiana, one of whom is a doctor and other of whom is the spouse of a doctor. It situates their stories within the larger context of the deindustrialization of Muncie and the rise of a post-industrial society. It uses discourse analysis to describe how racial prejudice, social marginalization, and religious difference have affected the lives of immigrant working professionals and are embedded in the stories of daily life that the individuals share.
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Muncie, India(na)
This chapter describes the experiences of four South Asian women who grew up in Muncie, Indiana, ... more This chapter describes the experiences of four South Asian women who grew up in Muncie, Indiana, in the 1960s and 1970s, and of the author’s relationship with them. It situates their experiences within the scholarship on race and ethnicity. Through auto-ethnography, it analyzes how a marking of foreign-ness upon the individual women’s bodies created a consciousness that served at varying times as a source of pride, of shame, protection, and/or confusion. It proposes re-imagining the American landscape as not browner and less Christian than in the past but rather as a space where racial, ethnic, and religious differences were always already embedded.
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Muncie, India(na)
This chapter explores motivations that Indians and other South Asians had for leaving their home ... more This chapter explores motivations that Indians and other South Asians had for leaving their home countries, and analyzes the dynamics of the South Asian American community in Muncie, Indiana. It discusses the concept of diaspora and analyzes how the Muncie South Asians embody a diasporic mindset. It pays special attention to the first South Asians to settle permanently in Muncie, and uses discourse analysis to place their experiences within a larger geo-political context.
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This chapter discusses the relationship between South Asian immigration and labor in the late twe... more This chapter discusses the relationship between South Asian immigration and labor in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It analyzes experiences of two Indian Americans in Muncie, Indiana, one of whom is a doctor and other of whom is the spouse of a doctor. It situates their stories within the larger context of the deindustrialization of Muncie and the rise of a post-industrial society. It uses discourse analysis to describe how racial prejudice, social marginalization, and religious difference have affected the lives of immigrant working professionals and are embedded in the stories of daily life that the individuals share.
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Muncie, India(na), 2018
This chapter describes how sociologists Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd conducted research ... more This chapter describes how sociologists Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd conducted research in Muncie, Indiana, in the 1920s and how popular reception to their book Middletown: A Study in American Culture created Muncie’s reputation as typical America. It analyzes how exclusion of African Americans and foreign-born individuals from the Middletown study resulted in a distorted understanding of the typical American that continues to haunt the American mindset into the twenty-first century. It explores how scholars and other researchers have addressed the distortion and situates the author’s study within this context.
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Muncie, India(na), 2018
This chapter discusses Hindu nationalism and its outreach to Indians living outside of India, par... more This chapter discusses Hindu nationalism and its outreach to Indians living outside of India, particularly the United States. It describes how the movement has impacted the daily lives of Indian Americans in Muncie, Indiana, through a close reading and discourse analysis of conversations with Indian and other South Asian residents of Muncie. The author uses auto-ethnography to situate the analysis within the context of her experiences and argues that the manner in which South Asian Americans in Muncie of differing religious backgrounds might offer a template for challenging religious discrimination.
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Journal of Autoethnography, 2021
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This chapter analyzes a dispute over how to celebrate the National Day of Prayer in Muncie, India... more This chapter analyzes a dispute over how to celebrate the National Day of Prayer in Muncie, Indiana, in 2003, in which a Christian evangelical pastor refused to participate in a multi-religious interfaith celebration. It situates the dispute in the context of the broader scholarship on racial and religious discrimination. It also looks closely at the participation of African American Muslims and South Asian American Hindus and Muslims in the event. It critiques the concept of tolerance, and it proposes a feminist inspired template of alliance building to create a sustained challenge to Christian dominance in America.
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The epilogue summarizes the book’s central themes. It uses auto-ethnography to illustrate the cha... more The epilogue summarizes the book’s central themes. It uses auto-ethnography to illustrate the challenges – and sometimes near impossibility – of creating a multi-racial, multi-religious polity in an America that has long been shaped by white, Christian dominance. It highlights ways in which such efforts to create such a polity have continued to take place among South Asian Americans and others in Muncie, Indiana. At the same time, it notes failures in the author’s own attempts in her personal life.
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It is September 2009 and the start of a new semester. Students have gathered for the first meetin... more It is September 2009 and the start of a new semester. Students have gathered for the first meeting of my New Politics, New Possibilities class at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. We are seated around a table and are going through the syllabus. The readings include reports on hip-hop’s emergence in the 1970s; America’s conservative turn in the 1980s; and a recently-elected President Barack Obama’s agenda for the early years of the 21st century.
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Muncie, India(na), 2018
This chapter uses auto-ethnography and discourse analysis to discuss the lives of South Asian Ame... more This chapter uses auto-ethnography and discourse analysis to discuss the lives of South Asian American individuals’ memories of their teenage years in Muncie, Indiana. It compares and contrasts these experiences with the depiction of high school life in the acclaimed documentary Seventeen, analyzing both the experiences and the film against the 1970s racial politics of Muncie life. It also critiques a set of new Middletown studies on Muncie that were conducted in the 1970s and in doing so argues that the exclusions of African Americans and foreign-born individuals in the earlier studies by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd affected the lens through which the follow-up studies interpreted 1970s Muncie life
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The AAG Review of Books, 2019
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Hip-hop is so related to masculinity that it shocks people to see a woman on stage. They call us ... more Hip-hop is so related to masculinity that it shocks people to see a woman on stage. They call us wombs, bitches, and hos. At the same time, hip-hop says everyone's view should be represented. It doesn't make sense. The speaker of the preceding quote is Desdamona, a rapper in Minneapolis who helped organize the first all-women's hip-hop summit, B-Girl Be, out of an interest in interrogating the relationship between hip-hop and masculinity. This paper will look at how B-Girl Be has helped to develop a feminist identity within hip-hop since its founding in 2002, drawing on interviews with Desdamona and other feminist hip-hop artists as well as data gathered from participant-observation at the 2009 B-Girl Be summit. The summit takes place in Minneapolis and draws participants from all over the world who create B-Girl fashion and art, compete in a graffiti contest, hold discussion ciphers, and forge a sense of community through rapping, street dancing, and dance and art workshops for children. The paper, which is part of the author's ongoing work on feminism and hip-hop, suggests that in interrogating the more masculine elements of hip-hop, such gatherings as B-Girl Be call attention to the absence of discussions on gendered relationships of power within hip-hop as well as within many of the new political movements in which hip-hop artists take part.
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... Bloomington: Indiana University Press. First citation in article. Lassiter, Luke Eric, Hurley... more ... Bloomington: Indiana University Press. First citation in article. Lassiter, Luke Eric, Hurley Goodall, Elizabeth Campbell, and Michelle Natasya Johnson, eds. 2004. ... Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. First citation in article. Smelser, Emmett. 2003. ...
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