Week 6 Blog Post

In “Mixed Desires: Second-Generation Indian Americans and the Politics of Youth Culture,” Sunaina Maira discusses how Indian Americans culture is being maintained through youth culture in America; particularly through forms of hybridization in music. I find this analysis quite interesting because it shows that certain cultural aspects can still be maintained while also being mixed with a different set of cultural aspects from another culture to create something completely new and intriguing. This reading relates to this week’s theme of Culture because Sunaina Maira is describing different cultural aspects of Indian Americans that are maintained in the diasporic communities. It is also relevant to current events in society because these new forms of hybridized music still exist today and are still enjoyed by many consumers.

Question: What effect do these new hybridized music forms have on not only the Indian American diasporic community, but also on American society as a whole?

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Maira, Sunaina. “Mixed Desires: Second­Generation Indian Americans and the Politics of Youth Culture.” ​Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas.

-Brittany Carlson