Shaista Patel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaista Patel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaista |
| FAMILY NAME | Patel |
| SIGNATURE | PATEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hum Sayyid, Tu Mírásí: Reading for caste in Pakistani Urdu television drama serials
Given the extreme dearth of empirical studies documenting the prevalence and operation of caste in Pakistan, this article invites viewers of Pakistani Urdu-language drama serials to consider how caste dynamics shapes characters and plotlines of widely consumed media. Urdu language dramas are viewed extensively not only in Pakistan but also across the diaspora, making them an important site for both the encoding and unraveling of dominant caste id…
Rooted in the soil: Defining Dalitness as an ethic and worldview
This article, written by two Dalit scholars from different religions and nationalities, reflects on the contours of Dalitness as an ethic and worldview. Drawing on Dalit and Black writers, they put forward the praxis of Dalitness as ‘rooted in the soil’ to present Dalitness as negotiated, as lived, and dreamt rather than as always understood on dominant-caste society’s dehumanizing terms as broken, crushed, and damaged. Thinking through the praxi…
Talking complicity, breathing coloniality: Interrogating settler-centric pedagogy of teaching about white settler colonialism
Teaching students to think about white settlers’ and racialized non-black people’s complicity in settler colonial violence can still be an instance of settler-centric pedagogy underlined by the trope of the ‘dying Indian’. Through reflecting on my teaching of a well-circulated article by a racialized scholar, I discuss how, despite my intentions, my orientation toward Indigenous peoples’ resistance remained temporary whereas colonial violence bec…
The ‘Indian Queen’ of the four continents: Tracing the ‘undifferentiated Indian’ through Europe’s encounters with Muslims, anti-Blackness, and conquest of the ‘New World
This article places Columbus's travels to the New World within a much older history of eight centuries of Muslim/Moor presence on the Iberian Peninsula. It argues that the Orientalist logics underlining the creation of the 'New World Indian' have a long history interpellated through figures of the Moors and other Africans whom Europeans knew for centuries before they encountered the Indigenous peoples of the 'New World.' This article argues for t…
The ‘Indian Queen’ of the four continents: Tracing the ‘undifferentiated Indian’ through Europe’s encounters with Muslims, anti-Blackness, and conquest of the ‘New World
This article places Columbus's travels to the New World within a much older history of eight centuries of Muslim/Moor presence on the Iberian Peninsula. It argues that the Orientalist logics underlining the creation of the 'New World Indian' have a long history interpellated through figures of the Moors and other Africans whom Europeans knew for centuries before they encountered the Indigenous peoples of the 'New World.' This article argues for t…
The ‘Indian Queen’ of the four continents: Tracing the ‘undifferentiated Indian’ through Europe’s encounters with Muslims, anti-Blackness, and conquest of the ‘New World
This article places Columbus's travels to the New World within a much older history of eight centuries of Muslim/Moor presence on the Iberian Peninsula. It argues that the Orientalist logics underlining the creation of the 'New World Indian' have a long history interpellated through figures of the Moors and other Africans whom Europeans knew for centuries before they encountered the Indigenous peoples of the 'New World.' This article argues for t…
Talking complicity, breathing coloniality: Interrogating settler-centric pedagogy of teaching about white settler colonialism
Teaching students to think about white settlers’ and racialized non-black people’s complicity in settler colonial violence can still be an instance of settler-centric pedagogy underlined by the trope of the ‘dying Indian’. Through reflecting on my teaching of a well-circulated article by a racialized scholar, I discuss how, despite my intentions, my orientation toward Indigenous peoples’ resistance remained temporary whereas colonial violence bec…
Rooted in the soil: Defining Dalitness as an ethic and worldview
This article, written by two Dalit scholars from different religions and nationalities, reflects on the contours of Dalitness as an ethic and worldview. Drawing on Dalit and Black writers, they put forward the praxis of Dalitness as ‘rooted in the soil’ to present Dalitness as negotiated, as lived, and dreamt rather than as always understood on dominant-caste society’s dehumanizing terms as broken, crushed, and damaged. Thinking through the praxi…
Hum Sayyid, Tu Mírásí: Reading for caste in Pakistani Urdu television drama serials
Given the extreme dearth of empirical studies documenting the prevalence and operation of caste in Pakistan, this article invites viewers of Pakistani Urdu-language drama serials to consider how caste dynamics shapes characters and plotlines of widely consumed media. Urdu language dramas are viewed extensively not only in Pakistan but also across the diaspora, making them an important site for both the encoding and unraveling of dominant caste id…
Caste (2 works) · Complicity (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (1 works) · Drama (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works)