Virtual Homelands – Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States

Virtual HomelandsIndian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States\nAuthor(s): Madhavi Mallapragada\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252080227, 978-0252080227\nSynopsis\nThe internet has transformed the idea of home for Indians and Indian Americans. In Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States, Madhavi Mallapragada analyzes home pages and other online communities organized by diasporic and immigrant Indians from the late 1990s through the social media period. Engaging the shifting aspects of belonging, immigrant politics, and cultural citizenship by linking the home page, household, and homeland as key sites, Mallapragada illuminates the contours of belonging and reveals how Indian American struggles over it trace back to the web's active mediation in representing, negotiating, and reimagining \""home.\"" As Mallapragada shows, ideologies around fa""