Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
Monday, July 17, 2006
roots in the sand
This is just so random that I felt like sharing. Roots in the Sand is a film on Punjabi-Mexicans in Southern California about a hundred years ago.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
This is so interesting!
It must have been difficult, considering their backgrounds.
You know this is actually not all that random. A friend of mine from Cali, who came in this past year as a freshman, is a fascinating mix of ethnicities (including some Philipino, and also some European, I believe), but she's predominantly Mexican/South-Asian. I often wondered how that ever came to be! Oh, and she & her family is also Muslim! But anyways, so a while ago I randomly came across the website of this professor at UC-Irvine (Karen Leonard) who does research on South Asian American Muslims, but also on the "Punjabi-Mexican Americans of California". I was totally awed to realize that there was a whole bunch of them!
Anyways, so now this link here adds to the interesting finds (Thanks for posting!). I'm gonna forward it to my friend right now!
2 comments:
This is so interesting!
It must have been difficult, considering their backgrounds.
You know this is actually not all that random. A friend of mine from Cali, who came in this past year as a freshman, is a fascinating mix of ethnicities (including some Philipino, and also some European, I believe), but she's predominantly Mexican/South-Asian. I often wondered how that ever came to be! Oh, and she & her family is also Muslim! But anyways, so a while ago I randomly came across the website of this professor at UC-Irvine (Karen Leonard) who does research on South Asian American Muslims, but also on the "Punjabi-Mexican Americans of California". I was totally awed to realize that there was a whole bunch of them!
Anyways, so now this link here adds to the interesting finds (Thanks for posting!). I'm gonna forward it to my friend right now!
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