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American KarmaRace, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora\nAuthor(s): Sunil Bhatia\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814799598, 978-0814799598\nSynopsis\nThe Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the [url] Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors.\n American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into \""people of color.\"" Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these transnational immigrants themselves come to understand and negotiate their identities.\n Bhatia forcefully contends that to fully understand migrant identity and cultural for.