Interconnections and Uneasy Alliances Between the Black and South Asian Diasporas: A Study of Hip Hop Videos, Film and Literature

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dc.contributor.advisorMukherjee, Arun P.
dc.creatorGandhi, Visha
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:12:41Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:12:41Z
dc.date.copyright2014-09-29
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:12:41Z
dc.degree.disciplineEnglish
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation challenges the belief that racialized communities do immediately support and identify with each other; my research on the Black and South Asian diasporas unearths the Orientalist thoughts and anti-Black racisms that exist in each respective community. Using the work of Edward Said in his text, Orientalism, and research on racial triangulation by Asian Americanist Claire Jean Kim, my work attempts to clarify the often-conflicted relations and dynamics between South Asians, Blacks, and whites. Chapter two of this dissertation looks at romantic and sexual involvement between different racial communities; I specifically look at the films Mississippi Masala and Bhaji on the Beach to delve into the cultural rarity that is the Black-South Asian romance. Chapter three discusses Black Orientalism in American hip hop videos by such artists as Truth Hurts, and Timbaland and Magoo. Finally, chapter four looks at gendered dynamics and longings for blackness in the texts Consensual Genocide, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Londonstani, by Gautam Malkani.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/29974
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subjectEthnic studies
dc.subjectSouth Asian studies
dc.subject.keywordsCultural studies
dc.subject.keywordsEnglish language and literature
dc.subject.keywordsCritical race studies
dc.subject.keywordsEthnic studies
dc.subject.keywordsDiaspora studies
dc.subject.keywordsDiasporic literature
dc.subject.keywordsGender studies
dc.subject.keywordsMasculinity
dc.subject.keywordsHip hop
dc.subject.keywordsHip hop feminism
dc.subject.keywordsRace
dc.subject.keywordsPopular culture
dc.subject.keywordsOrientalism
dc.subject.keywordsAsian studies
dc.subject.keywordsBlack diaspora
dc.subject.keywordsComparative ethnic and racial studies
dc.subject.keywordsRace
dc.subject.keywordsRacism
dc.titleInterconnections and Uneasy Alliances Between the Black and South Asian Diasporas: A Study of Hip Hop Videos, Film and Literature
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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