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Shifting U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities and Sikh American Activism

Prema Kurien
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 81-98; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.04
Prema Kurien
aProfessor and chair of sociology, as well as the founding director of the Asian/Asian American Studies program at Syracuse University
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    • Abstract
    • FACTORS SPURRING MOBILIZATION AROUND RACE AND ETHNICITY
    • METHODS
    • EARLY SOUTH ASIAN MIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA
    • EARLY SIKHS ON THE PACIFIC WEST COAST: FROM SUPPORTERS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO ANTICOLONIAL INDIAN NATIONALISTS
    • U.S. RACIAL STATUS: FROM HINDU CAUCASIANS TO NONWHITE ALIENS
    • FROM NONWHITE ALIENS TO SUCCESSFUL LOBBYISTS FOR CITIZENSHIP AND INDIAN INDEPENDENCE
    • POST-1965 SIKH IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES: FROM OTHER RACE TO ASIAN INDIAN
    • SIKHS IN INDEPENDENT INDIA: FROM PARTITION TO 1984
    • THE IMPACT OF 1984 ON SIKH AMERICANS
    • THE IMPACT OF 9/11: MOBILIZING AS AN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC MINORITY
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