The Complicated and Sometimes Racist History of Referring to South Asians as “East Indian”

"Ultimately, the term 'East Indian' is a remnant of archaic geopolitical Eurocentric positioning and shouldn’t be used at all in a modern context, unless you are talking about people from the eastern part of India. To use it in any other context is playing to Orientalist — and yes, racist — othering of not only people from India, but also Native American populations throughout North America who shouldn’t still be called 'Indian' at all." For Wear Your Voice Mag, Jan 2017.

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