Linta Varghese
Biographic Data
| ID | 1394659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linta Varghese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linta |
| FAMILY NAME | Varghese |
| SIGNATURE | VARGHESE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crafting Connections: Creating Counterspaces to Academic Diversity Labour
In this piece we discuss the workspace precarities of women of colour academics in higher education in the United States between the early 2000s and early 2020s and share some thinking about how one might labour beyond institutional structures of diversity. In particular, we offer an argument for the importance of counterspaces to the institutions that employ them and the power of collective labour outside institutional structures (in this case, …
One Century After Thind
The 1923 naturalization case, United States v Bhagat Singh Thind (Thind), has become a flashpoint for multiple analyses of South Asian racialization in the United States, at times positioned as evidence of Asian exclusion and eventual triumph and, at others, an attempt to "claim whiteness" and inclusion through leveraging racist and casteist ideologies. The centenary of Thind offers an opportunity to revisit the case itself as well as take up bro…
Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States (review)
Reviewed by: Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States Linta Varghese (bio) Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States, by Monisha Das Gupta. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. ix + 318 pp. $23.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-3898-X. Monisha Das Gupta's Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United S…
Constructing a Worker Identity: Class, Experience, and Organizing in Workers'Awaaz
This article examines the debates over the meaning of 'worker' in Workers' Awaaz, a female domestic workers' group in New York City, at three moments in the organization's history.Workers' Awaaz set itself apart from other South Asian groups through its focus on low-wage workers and by attempting to institute an organizing, rather than activist or service model. However, I argue that an infrastructure that divided workers from other membership al…
Constructing a Worker Identity: Class, Experience, and Organizing in Workers'Awaaz
This article examines the debates over the meaning of 'worker' in Workers' Awaaz, a female domestic workers' group in New York City, at three moments in the organization's history.Workers' Awaaz set itself apart from other South Asian groups through its focus on low-wage workers and by attempting to institute an organizing, rather than activist or service model. However, I argue that an infrastructure that divided workers from other membership al…
Constructing a Worker Identity: Class, Experience, and Organizing in Workers'Awaaz
This article examines the debates over the meaning of 'worker' in Workers' Awaaz, a female domestic workers' group in New York City, at three moments in the organization's history.Workers' Awaaz set itself apart from other South Asian groups through its focus on low-wage workers and by attempting to institute an organizing, rather than activist or service model. However, I argue that an infrastructure that divided workers from other membership al…
Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States (review)
Reviewed by: Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States Linta Varghese (bio) Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States, by Monisha Das Gupta. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. ix + 318 pp. $23.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-3898-X. Monisha Das Gupta's Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United S…
Crafting Connections: Creating Counterspaces to Academic Diversity Labour
In this piece we discuss the workspace precarities of women of colour academics in higher education in the United States between the early 2000s and early 2020s and share some thinking about how one might labour beyond institutional structures of diversity. In particular, we offer an argument for the importance of counterspaces to the institutions that employ them and the power of collective labour outside institutional structures (in this case, …
One Century After Thind
The 1923 naturalization case, United States v Bhagat Singh Thind (Thind), has become a flashpoint for multiple analyses of South Asian racialization in the United States, at times positioned as evidence of Asian exclusion and eventual triumph and, at others, an attempt to "claim whiteness" and inclusion through leveraging racist and casteist ideologies. The centenary of Thind offers an opportunity to revisit the case itself as well as take up bro…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works)