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Book Talk with Dr. Kavitha Koshy
April 27, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Come join us for a book talk to discuss Dr. Kavitha Koshy’s new book, The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines. Discussants will include Dr. Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson (Sociology) and Dr. Justin Gomer (American Studies).
Thursday, April 27, 2023
5:00-6:30pm
Anatol Patio (next to AS building)
Light refreshments will be provided
In The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines, Kavitha Koshy offers a timely exploration of Indian immigrant racialization at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is a call to action for an anti-racist, decolonial practice among differentially racialized peoples. The findings of the research uncover the paradoxes of claiming deracialized, neoliberal identities, while engaging in racial contestation, benefiting from selective immigration while occupying a racialized-human capital-labor “slot” in global capitalism, and experiencing “racialized otherness” through everyday racism, despite proximity to whiteness. Koshy develops a typology of Indian immigrant racialized subjectivity amid anti-Blackness, whiteness, caste-ness, Islamophobia, “forever foreignness,” and neoliberal logic.
