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Author Gupta-Carlson, Himanee

Title Muncie, India(na) : Middletown and Asian America
Published Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (185 pages)
Series Asian American Experience Ser
Asian American Experience Ser
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Creating a Typical America: The Middletown Studies and Muncie; 2 Marring Typicality: South Asian Immigrants in Muncie; 3 Fitting In: Muncie South Asians and Childhood; 4 Navigating Rebellion and Respect: South Asian Teenagers and High School Life; 5 Cowpath Crossings: Postindustrial Work and Indian Doctors; 6 Knowing Your Place: Religious Identities and Differences; Conclusion: Race, Religion, and the Limits of Tolerance; Epilogue: An Unraveled America?; Appendix; Notes; Index
Summary This work is a study of South Asian Americans in Muncie, Indiana - the author's hometown. Muncie is the small Midwestern city made famous for being 'typical America' through the Middletown studies
Notes Print version record
Subject Gupta-Carlson, Himanee
Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970. Middletown
SUBJECT Middletown (Lynd, Robert Staughton) fast
Subject South Asian Americans -- Indiana -- Muncie
Immigrants -- Indiana -- Muncie
South Asian Americans.
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
Social conditions
South Asian Americans
SUBJECT Muncie (Ind.) -- Ethnic relations
Muncie (Ind.) -- Social conditions
Subject Indiana -- Muncie
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252050497
0252050495