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Maya and Rajan Go to North India
Maya and Rajan Go to North India introduces young children to the concept of a bi-cultural heritage. Maya and Rajan have the opportunity to learn about their Indian heritage on this trip. As they grow up, they will learn that they are bi-cultural (Asian Indian and American) and they will learn how to weave their bi-cultural heritage into an identity that celebrates both. They will understand the richness of their heritage and about important people like their extended family. The book also introduces their Indian cultural heritage to their friends and other children
Maya and Rajan's Rainbow of Friends
Maya and Rajan's Rainbow of Friends introduces young children to the concepts of diversity and inclusion. Maya and Rajan say that, "You wouldn't only have friends with straight hair or green eyes...why would you only be friends with kids of a certain color or background?" This book helps children understand that friends come in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. They explore how their friends may have different abilities or special needs. This book will help children be more inclusive as they build their own rainbow of friends.
Maya and Rajan's Rainbow of Friends
Maya and Rajan's Rainbow of Friends introduces young children to the concepts of diversity and inclusion. Maya and Rajan say that, "You wouldn't only have friends with straight hair or green eyes...why would you only be friends with kids of a certain color or background?" This book helps children understand that friends come in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. They explore how their friends may have different abilities or special needs. This book will help children be more inclusive as they build their own rainbow of friends.
American Muslim Women
"Focusing on women, who sometimes move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaced and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice, this ethnographic study of African American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta explores how Islamic ideas of racial harmony amd equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalities."--Page 4 of cover.
Bollywood Weddings
Bollywood Weddings examines how second-generation Indian-American Hindus of the middle and upper classes negotiate courtship and wedding rituals. Kavita Ramdya integrates the stories of twenty couples, showing the ways and means by which a subcommunity falls in love and expresses their identity. She provides readers with a window into these Indian-American couples who are navigating identities through a major rite of passage in their lives-marriage. She affirms that this community flaunts all things Indian as a way to assert their American identity. Many of these couples are occasional Hindus, displaying their Hindu religious background only on important occasions. Instead of choosing either India or America, or arriving at a compromise between the two, this community embraces both cultures simultaneously.
Ethnic Routes to Becoming American
The author examines the paths South Asian immigrants in Chicago take toward assimilation in the late 20th century United States. She examines two ethnic institutions to show how immigrant activism ironically abets these immigrants' assimilation.
Indian Women Novelists in English
Contributed essays.
American Religions and the Family
Religions respond to capitalism, democracy, industrialization, feminism, individualism, and the phenomenon of globalization in a variety of ways. Some religions conform to these challenges, if not capitulate to them; some critique or resist them, and some work to transform the modern societies they inhabit. In this unique collection of critical essays, scholars of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Native American thought explore the tension between modernization and the family, sexuality, and marriage traditions of major religions in America. Contributors examine how various belief systems have confronted changing attitudes regarding the meaning and purpose ...
