Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America (Asian American Experience)

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Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the image of so-referred to as typical communities across the USA on an illusion. Their decades of studies ignored the racial, ethnic, and spiritual diversity and tensions woven into the American communities that Muncie supposedly embodied. Himanee Gupta-Carlson puts forth an very important question: what do nonwhites, non-Christians, and/or non-natives mean when they call themselves American? A daughter in one among Muncie’s first Indian American families, Gupta-Carlson merges personal experience, the life histories of others, and critical analysis to explore the answers. Her stories of members of Muncie’s South Asian communities unearth the silences imposed by past studies whilst challenging the body of scholarship in fundamental ways. On the same time, Gupta-Carlson shares personal memories and experiences that remove darkness from her place within the historical, political, and socio-cultural currents she engages in her work. It also reveals how that work informs and transforms her as a scholar and a person. As meditative as it’s insightful, Muncie, India(na) invites readers to feel the truth of the fascinating stories in the back of one woman’s revised portrait of an American community.

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