south asian american experience

SELECT FOUR QUESTIONS:

1.In her essay To Be Young, Brown, and Hip, Sunaina Maira points out that South Asian youth produce ways of being female and male that are problematic, in the heteropatriarchal space of remix dance and music. How according to Maira are women and men constructed differently as partners on the dance floor and as future marriage partners?

2. In her essay A View of Post-9/11 Justice From Below, Monisha Das Gupta discusses the ways in which South Asian cab drivers speak up to challenge the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes that prevailed after 9/11. How do cab drivers educate their passengers to contest representations of Muslim cab drivers as terrorists?

3.In her article, Youth Culture, Citizenship and Globalization Sunaina Maira analyzes the responses of Muslim youth grappling with their changed realities after 9/11. Explain ONLY ONE concept of citizenship—a) flexible, b) polycultural OR c) dissenting, as practiced by the South Asian youth, with specific examples. Discuss how young people practice/express these forms of citizenship in order to create a space of belonging in the U.S.

4. Discuss how the video Wild Woman in the Woods by Shani Mootoo can be seen as an act of queer empowerment. How does Goddess Durga assist Priya to overcome her (Priya’s) rejection of her own queer identity and lead her into a sacred space– a third space where queer people are celebrated?

5.In Immigrant Status and Marital Violence, Margaret Abraham examines Acts/policies/laws that affect the lives of immigrant women who are in abusive situations.

Select and discuss one Act starting with the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 as explained by Abraham. Provide specific details of how the Act gives total power to the abusive citizen or LPR spouse and how the Act has in-built problems that affect the circumstances of the abused spouse.