Shilpa Davé

Biographic Data

ID333081
NAMEShilpa Davé
GIVEN NAMESShilpa
FAMILY NAMEDavé
SIGNATUREDAVÉ S
AFFILIATIONSBrandeis University
ORCID0000-0001-8487-3746
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture. Vanita Reddy

    Open AccessShilpa DavéARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2018

  • Racial Accents, Hollywood Casting, and Asian American Studies

    Shilpa DavéARTICLECinema Journal2017Cited by: 3

    Racial Accents, Hollywood Casting, and Asian American Studies Shilpa Davé (bio) In the episode "Indians on TV" of the Netflix comedy series Master of None (2015–present), Emmy Award–winning cocreators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang chronicle the trials and tribulations of an Indian American man auditioning for acting jobs in the American television and film industry. The protagonist, Dev Shah (Ansari), who is an actor in New York City, questions himse…

  • Global Asian American Popular Cultures

    Ahmed Afzal, Crystal S Anderson et al.BOOKGlobal Asian American Popular…2016

    A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…

  • Matchmakers and cultural compatibility: Arranged marriage, South Asians, and American television

    Shilpa DavéARTICLESouth Asian Popular Culture2012Cited by: 2References: 1

    The article addresses the questions: How do popular representations of South Asian/American marriage traditions in American media comment on American dating and matching practices, and how does this influence American cultural and racial identity in relation to cultural assimilation? Television shows with Indian American characters such as Apu from The Simpsons often feature narratives of arranged marriage as an important part of the story. The a…

  • Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander

    Shilpa DavéARTICLESouth Asian Diaspora2011

  • Teaching Texts Unexpected Sites of Knowledge and Practice: Part One of a Two-Part Forum

    Yoonmee Chang, Tina Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2006

    Teaching Texts: Unexpected Sites of Knowledge and PracticePart One of a Two-Part Forum Yoonmee Chang (bio), Tina Chen (bio), Shilpa Davé (bio), Jennifer Ho (bio), and Paul Lai (bio) Introduction Yoonmee Chang WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE are no Asian American students in an Asian American Studies (AAS) classroom? What does it mean when there are only Asian American students in an AAS classroom? What do these polarized classroom situations tell us abou…

  • East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture

    Open AccessShilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime et al.BOOKEast Main Street2005

  • Celebrity Sightings and Sensationalist Mysteries: Chinese Americans, Inter-Racial Borders and Being American in Popular Culture

    Shilpa DavéARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2005

    The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City. By Mary Ting Yi Lui (Princeton UP 2005) Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity. By Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (University of California Press 2005) In the sixty-plus years between the Chinese Exclusion Act and its repeal in 1943, the popular demand for goods from East Asia, and in particular China, …

  • Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City (review)

    Shilpa DavéARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2002

    Sunaina Maira's Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City, begins with the story of Radhika, a young woman at Hunter College in New York City, who struggles with the labels she has available to identify herself ethnically and culturally: American with an Indian cultural background, Indian American, and Indian, among others. Radhika, upon taking a course in ethnic studies, begins to reflect consciously on how her identity …

  • De-Privileging Positions: Indian Americans, South Asian Americans, and the Politics of Asian American Studies

    Shilpa Davé, Pawan Dhingra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2000Cited by: 10References: 2

    This is not an essay about the marginalization of South Asian Americans within Asian American studies. And yet, ironically, it is--about moving from margin-center terminologies, California-centric, 1968-genesis theories, and "we were here first" mentalities, towards a progressive, intellectual paradigmatic shift, and a new vision of Asian American studies scholarship and pedagogy. This essay focuses on the emerging field of South Asian American s…

  • The Doors to Home and History: Post-colonial Identities in Meena Alexander and Bharati Mukherjee

    Shilpa DavéARTICLEAmerasia Journal1993