Mississippi Masala (1992) dir Mira Nair

  • My Name is Khan, film with an Indian American main character who has autism, I want to watch this!
  • Indians were taken to Uganda by the British(?) to build the railroad in Uganda.
  • Indians forced out of Uganda, military coop murdered 100,000 to 500,000 people
  • Asian American Settler Colonialism – is this a book I can’t remember. Something to look more into!
  • Issues of post colonial society
  • Colorism within the culture (Mina calling herself and being called a “darkie”)
  • Colorism and Econimics – dark with money or light with/without money but cant be dark with no money and expect to get married/have a good life.
  • Interracial relationships, race and sex
  • Asian/Americans as the perpetual other/outsider/foreigner

Guest Lecture from Zahara 

  • South Asian represents India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, and Afganistan
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan are politically and socially contested for being South Asian of Middle East

—— Woah, super weird side note. I sounded out Afghanistan and spelled it like Afganistan which is wrong but the options for spell check were Afghanistan and Satanist…. This is a really random thing but I feel like it shows how America demonizes people from places they regard as being the Middle East/Muslim.————–

  • 1907 there was a mob in Bellingham that beat the population of Sikh people there who were working in the lumber mill.
  • Map of the Asiatic zone of barred citizenship. In this map it looked like the Philippines was not a barred country, I will have to look into this to check.
  • 1946 South Asians and Filipinos given ability for citizenship.
  • Immigration was class based, profession skill based (doctors, white collar), refugees,
  • Swami Yoganda, mystic, book (The Autobiography of a Yogi) had influence on Steve Jobs, beat nick poetry, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and sci-fi films
  • Associated with cultural artifacts or practices rather than individuals and people
  • Brown face, “typical Indian accent”
  • Effect of 9/11 on South Asians – depends if people perceive them as Muslim or not.
  • Malala attacked by Al Qaeda, Nabila attacked by the United States.Malala getting the spotlight and press.  Symbol of American nationalism.
  • Appropriating Blackness to appeal to whiteness
  • Male dominated South Asian narrative
  • Brown Girls web series, the Kominas punk rock Pakistani band, MIA, Das Racist – Swet Shop Boys
  • Sri Lankan Civil war
  • Tamil immigrants, colonization – slavery in Sri Lanka