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The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity

On the Racial Sidelines
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In The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines, Kavitha Koshy offers a timely exploration of Indian immigrant racialization at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book is a call to action for an anti-racist, decolonial practice among differentially racialized peoples. Through twenty-three in-depth interviews, Koshy captures the unique experience of Indian American racial complicity on the sidelines of race. The findings of the research uncover the paradoxes of claiming the sidelines and deracialized, neoliberal identities, while engaging in racial contestation; benefiting from selective immigration while occupying a racialized-human capital-labor "slot" in global capitalism; and experiencing "racialized otherness" through everyday racism, both interpersonal and structural, despite proximity to whiteness. Koshy develops a typology of Indian immigrant racialized subjectivity amid anti-Blackness, whiteness, caste-ness, Islamophobia, "forever foreignness," and neoliberal logic. Through a recognition of the varied iterations of racial capital, the book attempts to suture the disconnect between different Indian immigrant cohorts. Through thought-provoking reflections about her own immigrant journey and observations of the US racialized terrain, Koshy locates herself among the narratives of research participants, moving between analysis and reflection throughout the book.
Kavitha Koshy is lecturer in women's, gender, and sexuality studies and sociology at California State University, Long Beach.
Introduction: Framing Complicity Chapter One: Racialized Otherness Chapter Two: The Paradoxes of a Middling Status Chapter Three: Complicit in Whiteness Chapter Four: The Disidentifiers and Relationals-Racialized Immigrant Subjectivity Chapter Five: A Call to Action-Where Our Paths Cross Conclusion: Race in Conversation
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