{"id":21257,"date":"2012-03-10T20:34:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21257"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:51:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:51:32","slug":"am-i-that-race-punjabi-mexicans-and-hybrid-subjectivity-or-how-to-do-theory-so-that-it-doesnt-do-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21257","title":{"rendered":"Am I that Race? Punjabi Mexicans and Hybrid Subjectivity, or How To Do Theory So That It Doesn’t Do You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I that Race? Punjabi Mexicans and Hybrid Subjectivity, or How To Do Theory So That It Doesn’t Do You<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hastings Women’s Law Journal<\/a>
\nVolume 21, Number 2 (Summer 2010)
\npage 311-332<\/p>\n

Falguni A. Sheth<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory
\nHampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

I. INTRODUCTION<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nThis paper explores the conceptual and racial status of “Punjabi Mexicans” at the turn of the twentieth century. I refer primarily to marriages between East Indian men and Mexican or Mexican-American women on the West Coast and in the Southwestern United States.<\/strong> The scant information available about these alliances has been uncovered by several historians and an anthropologist.\u00a0 In that literature, this group appears to be a “given,” i.e., it is portrayed as a coherent identity that emerges from a simple set of circumstances.\u00a0 Yet, it is anything but a given; its existence and its collective and individual consciousness is created out of a complex nexus of legal, political, social, and natural environments that spurred the migration of East Indian men and Mexican women from their homelands and to their adopted lands. I am interested in examining the collective consciousness of individuals who are located in the same moment, but who are living in distinct but overlapping contexts. The structural sources – laws, institutions, explicit and implicit prohibitions, cultural trends, and economic interests – converge to give this population its subjectivity. By subjectivity, I refer to the complex existence of human beings, whose self-understanding is found in the nexus of historical, political, and social circumstances; juridical and social institutions such as laws and government; as well as in their creativity and imagination in negotiating and resisting those circumstances in order to survive or flourish. In other words, as Michel Foucault<\/a> says, “There are two …<\/p>\n

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Am I that Race? Punjabi Mexicans and Hybrid Subjectivity, or How To Do Theory So That It Doesn’t Do You Hastings Women’s Law Journal Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer 2010) page 311-332 Falguni A. Sheth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts I. INTRODUCTION \u00a0 This paper explores the conceptual and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,16,21,459,1467,8,103,20],"tags":[9974,9977,9976,1351,20753,9975],"class_list":["post-21257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-asia","category-latincarib","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-usa","tag-falguni-a-sheth","tag-falguni-sheth","tag-hastings-womens-law-journal","tag-india","tag-mexico","tag-punjabi-mexicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}