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Brownness could be mobilized as an essentialist identity among South Asian communities for the purpose of shared anti-racist and anti-colonial resistance. Here Brown identity speaks to the racialized identity of South Asians ... How does Brown identity relate to, support, or hinder
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The vignette described here ... is not meant to introduce blackness as part of brown identity, but rather to highlight how the particular deployment of brown as identification that is under scrutiny in this issue has in part become a way to evade the discomfort of talking about black/white race
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being forced onto a White body through the dismissal of their Brown identities also challenge identity categories through the development of a similar diasporic consciousnesses that renders them 'homeless' within Brown communities ... how a white body works to erase
Brownness in a world captured
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Her master's thesis, Theorizing Brown
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As a reference to skin colour, "Brown" seems to reflect the importance of race to respondents' identities such that its adoption stands somewhat in contrast to pervading multicultural discourse ... In a sense, the term "Brown" works to re-inscribe race onto
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Only during her college education did Kumar-Ratta realise that there were many different brown identities. "I met
Indians whose parents migrated from East-Africa, but they were Indian and this prompted me to go on a journey of discovery of my
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Silva interweaves her own personal experience with ethnographic research and popular culture analysis to understand how a shifting understanding of "brown" identity shapes the treatment and control of brown bodies in post-9/11
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His book Curry is an engaging and insightful long-form essay that connects the dots between the popular dish and how it functions as shorthand for brown identity in representing the food, culture and social perception of the
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suggested that brown identity was at risk of being "shaped by outside perception, by the imagination that the majority imposes upon us". Ruthnum's writing and research into the phenomenon, which he associates with
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How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that "brown" is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political
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claiming a Brown identity". Despite some identification outside binaries of color, Harpalani has demonstrated how the identity does allow a distinction between certain white and black identities:
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Is there a unique "Brown" identity in Canada? Does being "Brown" expose someone to different and unique forms of racism or discrimination not experienced by Black, Asian or
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thesis, the academic demonstrated some test participants' bias toward perceiving only those of South Asian heritage as being brown, or possessing "an authentic "Brown" identity".
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