Ethnic performance, language proficiency, and ethnic media use among Indian American immigrants

Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Doshi, Marissa Joanna

doi:10.1080/17513057.2016.1272707

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“…The common narrative on using screen media or relaxing is that these are passive and unproductive activities that parents who have sufficient resources would avoid. Evidence suggests that racial/ethnic minority communities have more positive views toward screen media than the White community, as ethnic media play a vital role for people of color (Ramasubramanian & Doshi, 2017;Ward et al, 2010). In addition, when the outside world is stressful with potential racial threats, what one wants from their home life may be time for relaxation rather than time for scheduled productive activities.…”

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“…Qualitative research documents that church and ethnic media are public spaces where Black people come together to identify languages, rituals, racial experience, and history as shared experiences with comfort (Florini, 2015;Harris-Lacewell, 2010;Pattillo-McCoy, 1998;Ward et al, 2010). In Asian and Latinx communities, too, ethnic media play an instrumental role in maintaining ethnic social networks and ethnic identities (Li & Tsai 2015;Ramasubramanian & Doshi, 2017;Zhou & Cai, 2002). Together, we expect that racial/ethnic minority fathers spend more time than White fathers using screen media, attending social activities, and doing religious activities accompanied by children.…”

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Racial/Ethnic Variation in Residential Fathers’ Time in Childcare and Co-presence with Children

Nomaguchi¹,

Milkie²,

Allen³

et al. 2021

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Past research on racial/ethnic minority fathers’ involvement in children’s lives tends to focus on subgroups of fathers and narrow definitions of involvement, making knowledge of racial/ethnic variation in fathering obscure. Using ordinary-least-squared regression models with the 2003-2019 American Time Use Survey (N = 30,622), we compare White, Black, Latino, and Asian residential fathers’ time spent in four childcare activities and 10 additional daily activities when fathers are co-present with children, attending to variation by age of children. Results show that how fathers spend time with children varies by racial/ethnic group across stages of children’s lives. Latino fathers spend more time in presence of young children than other fathers, whereas Black and Asian fathers spend less time in presence of older children than other fathers, with differences concentrated in the amount of downtime spent together. Within father-child co-present time, Black fathers spend more time in religious activities, Latino fathers in shopping, and Asian fathers in hobbies. Considering the narrower arena of childcare, Black and Latino fathers spend less time overall, White fathers spend more time on play, and Black and Asian fathers spend more time teaching children. These findings suggest that broadening assessments of time beyond childcare and being attentive to fathers in different racial/ethnic statuses enrich our understanding of how fathers spend time with children and align more with the whole of family life across children’s developmental stages.

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Racial/Ethnic Variation in Residential Fathers’ Time in Childcare and Co-presence with Children

Nomaguchi¹,

Milkie²,

Allen³

et al. 2021

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“…Some of those articles studied the South Asian diaspora and their language learning, linguistic abilities, and usages of languages in multicultural settings. Several communicative aspects, such as language contact and training, acquisition of multilingualism, linguistic cosmopolitanism, socio‐linguistic impact of empowerment, accents and dialects, roles of ethnic media and performance, and gratification of language in social media were explored in those manuscripts (Hossain & Veenstra, 2017; Ramasubramanian & Doshi, 2017; Sharma, 2018). For example, one article argued that one who keeps multilingual notebooks for language learning would more likely become a good language learner (Radwańska‐Williams, 2009).…”

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Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us

Dutta

2021

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews contemporary intercultural scholarship by examining published papers in 16 communication journals (5 of them were dedicated intercultural journals) between 2007 and 2018. The analysis found that the number of manuscripts published in 12 years (n = 191, or approximately 2.5% of 7452 published papers) on South Asian issues and populations is meager. Based on the reading of the intercultural manuscripts, this article identified eight key areas of scholarly attention, including acculturation and cultural adaptation, intercultural transitions, language and verbal communication, communication for social change, negotiation of identities, technology‐based communication, media and mediated communication, and new dynamics in the contemporary era. Later, this article talked about “silent zones” of contemporary intercultural scholarship—topics or areas that are under‐researched and then described potential pathways of future scholarship in imagining a more tolerant, just and equal South Asia.

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“…The media plays an important role in the acculturation process of immigrants, and the host country's role in the same has been noted and studied (Raman and Harwood, 2016; Dalisay, 2012). The contemporary literature also note the role played by home country or ethnic media in the process, especially for the provision of scripts which enable those in the diaspora to enact and embody their “ethnicity in a transnational, transmedia global culture” (Ramasubramaniam and Doshi, 2017, p. 183). Extending the work of Anderson (1983/2016) on imagined communities and the role of print capitalism in its creation, Appadurai (1996) notes the importance of electronic and new media technologies in facilitating the work of imagination, which in turn aids in the creation of diasporic identities.…”

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“You make me miss Pune so much”: memory making and documenting in a Virtual Zenana

Kizhakkethil

2020

AJIM

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PurposeThe purpose of the study is to look at memory making and the documenting of memories, as a part of the document and information experience of women belonging to the Indian diaspora in a leisure context.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research approach was inspired by institutional ethnography, and data are collected through semi-structured interviews and by collecting comments posted on five fan fiction blogs.FindingsEarly observations show that memory making and documenting of those memories is a part of the document experience of the research participants. It also points to the role of social interactions in that experience as well as the recording of one's document experience in the making or deriving of document meaning.Originality/valueThis study aims to contribute toward conceptual growth in the area of information and document experience. It also aims to address a gap in the literature that looks at cultural memory evocation and how it is documented, as well as looking at the interplay between affordances of new media, memory making and documentary practices especially with respect to virtual communities. And when looked at through the prism of migration and leisure, it can be even more interesting.

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Ethnic performance, language proficiency, and ethnic media use among Indian American immigrants

Cited by 7 publications

References 50 publications

Racial/Ethnic Variation in Residential Fathers’ Time in Childcare and Co-presence with Children

Racial/Ethnic Variation in Residential Fathers’ Time in Childcare and Co-presence with Children

Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us

“You make me miss Pune so much”: memory making and documenting in a Virtual Zenana

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