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Using Said's contrapuntal analysis, this paper places Prashad's Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today (2012) in a dialectic with Said's Orientalism (1978) to explore contemporary conceptualisations, racialisations and positionings of South Asians in the United States. The investigation specifies the enduring and expanding nature of Orientalisms, using Marxist political economy analyses and post-colonial positionings to gain insights into the specifically hybridised identities of South Asians in America. It links the expansion of Orientalisms to contemporary US imperial projects with South Asians’ conceptualisations and racialisations located within the amalgam of expanding global capitalism and narratives of security.
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