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