South Asian Youth in Diaspora. Anti-racist Discourses & Entangled Epistemes

• Authors: Amin Riham , Pascale Celine-Marie
• Conference: The Language of a Pandemic: COVID-19 discursive practice and social change
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The South Asian postcolonial diaspora has produced multiple new encounters with racism for South Asian immigrants. Colonial forces that repressed non-western traditional thought and knowledge persist today through the coloniality of power. Erasures of South Asian cultures are advanced through imperial legacies of racism, colorism, sexism, and islamophobia. South Asian youth raised in diaspora must negotiate a liminal state poised between their parents’ often romanticized and conservative traditions that were forged in relation to coloniality and the marginality of their own experiences and identities produced through North Atlantic discourses of whiteness and modernity. This article is based on textual analysis of feminist and antiracist discourses in Brown Girl Magazine, a multimedia platform founded by and for South Asian womxn. We use the theoretical frameworks of coloniality and decolonialism to situate everyday practices within broader cultural practices—both contemporary and historical. Our analysis concerns how feminist, anti-racist discourses in Brown Girl Magazine characterize and challenge inequalities affecting South Asians. Our analysis demonstrates some of the discursive strategies deployed in Brown Girl Magazine to construct counter-hegemonic discourses and practices—in particular those used to cultivate a sense of cultural community for South Asian youth.

Keywords

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Textual Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Coloniality; Decoloniality; Feminism; Racism; Anti-racism; Epistemic Disobedience; Ontological Insecurity

• Publisher: Research Committee Language and Society
• Journal: Language, Discourse & Society
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 9 (1)
• Pages: 9
• Physical description: Article

Dates

published

2021-06-24

Contributors

author

Amin Riham

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Pascale Celine-Marie

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