Racial Calculations
Indian and Pakistani Immigrants in Houston, 1960–1980
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11699027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uzma Quraishi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 55-76 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Ethnic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0278-5927 • E-ISSN: 1936-4695 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.4.0055 |
| OpenAlex | W2967641936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Highly educated Indian and Pakistani immigrants arrived in boomtown Houston in the 1960s and 1970s, readily securing employment as engineers or other white-collar professionals. At the same time, they faced racism in housing, the workplace, university campuses, and restaurants. Asians were “conditionally included”—that is, accepted for their economic value but often, socially outcast. The racial calculations made by Indian and Pakistani immigrants in a rapidly internationalizing city were fraught with contradictions. They sought places and spaces where they felt tolerated, even if not completely welcomed into the fold. At the same time, they wielded their class status and ethnicity as tools by which they could both distance themselves from other racialized minorities and attempt to bypass their own racialization altogether. The experiences of immigrants of color reveals the racial architecture–-that is, those norms that upheld the structure of white privilege–-of a changing American South
Ethnic group · Immigration · Political science · Privilege (computing · Race (biology · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · White privilege · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society
White Flight
Whiteness
The Marginalized "Model" Minority
From Expatriate Aristocrat to Immigrant Nobody
Toward a Theory of Panethnicity
Fictive Kin as Social Capital in New Immigrant Communities
The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans
The Career Attainment of Caucasian and Asian Engineers
The Global Context of Metropolitan Growth
The contested meanings of 'Asian American
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |