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Author Mallapragada, Madhavi, author

Title Virtual homelands : Indian immigrants and online cultures in the United States / Madhavi Mallapragada
Published Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Asian American experience
Asian American experience.
Contents Introduction : recasting home -- Homepage nationalisms : Silicon Indians and curry codes -- Out of place in the domestic space : H4 Indian ladies negotiating belonging -- The wired home : commodified belonging for the transnational family -- Desi networks : linking race, class, and immigration to homeland -- Conclusion : home matters in the age of networks
Summary "In Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States, Mahavi Mallapragada analyzes home pages and other online communities organized by diasporic and immigrant Indians from the late 1990s through the social media period. Engaging the shifting aspects of belonging, immigrant politics, and cultural citizenship by linking the home page, household, and homeland as key sites, Mallapragada illuminates the contours of belonging and reveals how Indian American struggles over it trace back to the web's active mediation in representing, negotiating, and reimagining "home". As Mallapragada shows, ideologies around family and citizenship shift to fit the transnational contexts of the online world and immigration. At the same time, the tactical use of the home page to make gender, racial, and class struggles visible and create new modes for belonging implicates the web within complex political and cultural terrain. On e-commerce, community, and activist sites, the recasting of home and homeland online points to intrusion by public agents such as the state, the law, and immigration systems in the domestic, the private, and the familial. Mallapragada reveals that the home page may mobilize to reproduce conservative narratives of Indian immigrants' familial and citizenship cultures, but the reach of a website extends beyond the textual and discursive to encompass the institutions shaping it, as the web unmakes and remakes ideas of "India" and "America"."--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-179) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject East Indians -- United States -- Ethnic identity
Online social networks -- Social aspects
East Indians -- Cultural assimilation -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
East Indians -- Cultural assimilation
East Indians -- Ethnic identity
Online social networks -- Social aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718071
ISBN 9780252096563
0252096568
1306980976
9781306980975
Other Titles Indian immigrants and online cultures in the United States