Jollybengali.net – An Amrikan Chimaera's Journey
Politics, religion, culture, brown…
India Sweets & Spices, about a girl named Alia who discovers family secrets during summer break, certainly does have imperfections. But I’m happy that it exists and that it adds to the growing (and never perfect) list of stories told about South Asians.
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… And Green Clovers? It’s easy and sometimes even required in politics to categorize peoples into very simplistic groups. Otherwise it would be difficult
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Perhaps more subtle insidious than colorism, Alice Walker’s term for discrimination based on gradations of skin color, is the idea of favoring certain facial
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Or… Tripping over the Pedestal Here in sunny beautiful vanilla Western PA, it’s easy to become attenuated to the connections one has to the
Continue readingIt seems the height of irony that my trip to a shooting range would be with a liberal South Asian friend in uber-liberal San
Continue readingI read a post over at Girl You So Well Spoken detailing an apparent casting call for a Ciroc commercial seeking “light-skinned african americans”.
Continue readingAmong desi’s who don’t live in the motherland, there is sometimes a sort of pre-emptive hate-hate dynamic between strangers of the different sexes. The
Continue readingThis past weekend at my good friend Samira’s wedding, I was only one of 3 adult men who donned a traditional outfit whereas the
Continue reading“It’s different for you because you’re a guy.” I do not know how many times I have heard that statement. As a man, I
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