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Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South
Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black-white relations, this interdisciplinary collection explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South. Avoiding the usual focus on the East and West Coasts, several essays attend to the nuanced ways in which Asian Americans negotiate the dominant black and white racial binary, while others provoke readers to reconsider the supposed cultural isolation of the region, reintroducing the South within a historical web of global networks across the Caribbean, Pacific, and Atlantic.
Contributors are Vivek Bald, Leslie Bow, Amy Brandzel, Daniel Bronstein, Jigna Desai, Jennifer Ho, Khyati Y. Joshi, ChangHwan Kim, Marguerite Nguyen, Purvi Shah, Arthur Sakamoto, Jasmine Tang, Isao Takei, and Roy Vu.
Contributors are Vivek Bald, Leslie Bow, Amy Brandzel, Daniel Bronstein, Jigna Desai, Jennifer Ho, Khyati Y. Joshi, ChangHwan Kim, Marguerite Nguyen, Purvi Shah, Arthur Sakamoto, Jasmine Tang, Isao Takei, and Roy Vu.
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299 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
About the author
Khyati Y. Joshi
6 books3 followersKhyati Y. Joshi is a public intellectual whose social science research and community
connections inform policy-makers, educators, and everyday people about race, religion,
and immigration in 21st century America. Her most recent book is White Christian
Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America (NYU Press, 2020). She is the
author and co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 3rd edition
(Routledge, 2016), one of the most widely-used books by diversity practitioners and
social justice scholars alike. Her other works include New Roots in America’s Sacred
Ground: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in Indian America (Rutgers U. Press,
2006); Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans (University of Hawaii Press,
2020) and Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South (U. of Illinois
Press, 2013), both as co-editor; and numerous book chapters and articles. Most
recently, she is Co-Pi for a $1,000,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation in support
of a 4-year project with the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative
(APARRI).
She has lectured around the world, including at the White House; to policy-makers at
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); and for scholarly and
popular audiences in Denmark, India, Lebanon, and across the United States. She is
also the co-founder of the Institute for Teaching Diversity and Social Justice, which
offers multi-day professional development programs for educators, since 2007. She
consults on equity, inclusion and justice for schools, colleges and universities, nonprofit
organizations, and businesses; she has provided professional development to
educators across the U.S., and continuing education programs for lawyers and judges.
Often contacted by journalists, Dr. Joshi has appeared on MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, BNC
(the Black News Channel), NDTV in India, CNA (Channel News Asia, Singapore), and
has been interviewed on the radio at Voice of America, PRI’s The World, and NPR’s
Morning Edition, and numerous other radio programs and podcasts across the United
States. Her words and insights appear in publications in the U.S. and abroad such as
the New York Times, NBC News Asian America, The Times of India, the Wall Street
Journal, the Washington Post, Deseret News, the Boston Globe, the Houston
Chronicle, India Abroad, among others.
connections inform policy-makers, educators, and everyday people about race, religion,
and immigration in 21st century America. Her most recent book is White Christian
Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America (NYU Press, 2020). She is the
author and co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 3rd edition
(Routledge, 2016), one of the most widely-used books by diversity practitioners and
social justice scholars alike. Her other works include New Roots in America’s Sacred
Ground: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in Indian America (Rutgers U. Press,
2006); Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans (University of Hawaii Press,
2020) and Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South (U. of Illinois
Press, 2013), both as co-editor; and numerous book chapters and articles. Most
recently, she is Co-Pi for a $1,000,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation in support
of a 4-year project with the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative
(APARRI).
She has lectured around the world, including at the White House; to policy-makers at
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); and for scholarly and
popular audiences in Denmark, India, Lebanon, and across the United States. She is
also the co-founder of the Institute for Teaching Diversity and Social Justice, which
offers multi-day professional development programs for educators, since 2007. She
consults on equity, inclusion and justice for schools, colleges and universities, nonprofit
organizations, and businesses; she has provided professional development to
educators across the U.S., and continuing education programs for lawyers and judges.
Often contacted by journalists, Dr. Joshi has appeared on MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, BNC
(the Black News Channel), NDTV in India, CNA (Channel News Asia, Singapore), and
has been interviewed on the radio at Voice of America, PRI’s The World, and NPR’s
Morning Edition, and numerous other radio programs and podcasts across the United
States. Her words and insights appear in publications in the U.S. and abroad such as
the New York Times, NBC News Asian America, The Times of India, the Wall Street
Journal, the Washington Post, Deseret News, the Boston Globe, the Houston
Chronicle, India Abroad, among others.
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