Sun Never Sets

Vivek Bald is Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America.Miabi Chatterji received her PhD from New York University in American Studies. She serves on the Board of Directors of the RESIST Foundation and works with non-profit organizations such as NYUFASP, a group of NYU faculty working for shared governance at their institution.Sujani Reddy is Five College Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the Department of American Studies at Amherst College.Manu Vimalassery is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University.Vijay Prashad is author of Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu VimalasseryPart I. Overlapping Empires 1 Intimate Dependency, Race, and Trans-Imperial Migration Nayan Shah 2 Repressing the "Hindu Menace"Seema Sohi 3 Desertion and SeditionVivek Bald 4 "The Hidden Hand"Sujani ReddyPart II. From Imperialism to Free-Market Fundamentalism 5 Putting "the Family" to WorkMiabi Chatterji 6 Looking Home Linta Varghese 7 India's Global and Internal Labor Migration and ResistanceImmanuel Ness 8 Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola Amanda Ciafone 9 When an Interpreter Could Not Be FoundNaeem MohaiemenPart III. Geographies of Migration, Settlement, and Self 10 Intertwined Violence: Implications of State Responses to Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Communities Soniya Munshi 11 Who's Your Daddy? Queer Diasporic Framings of the RegionGayatri Gopinath 12 Awaiting the Twelfth Imam in the United StatesRaza Mir and Farah Hasan 13 Tracing the Muslim BodyJunaid Rana 14 Antecedents of Imperial IncarcerationManu VimalasseryAfterword Vijay PrashadIndexAbout the Contributors

"This unique collection spans over 100 years of South Asian migration to the U.S., offering us a rich history of early immigrants and migrants, undocumented workers and ship stowaways, and the anti-colonial activists of the early 20th centuries whose histories have largely been ignored. The essays unfold within a theoretical framework of 'empire and global power' to provide complex analyses of the transnational mobility of understudied populations and feature meticulous archival work that reveals the alliances that early South Asians made with Mexicans, Irish, Chinese, and African Americans." - Rajini Srikanth,author of Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law "The Sun Never Setsopens up radically new ways to think about diaspora that have so far privileged origins. By brilliantly dislodging nation-state derived ideals of origins, immigration, and restriction, the essays in this collection hone in on the lived experiences of sojourning and settlement through the vantage point of the immigrants themselves. An exciting new paradigm for Asian American Studies,The Sun Never Setswill bethepoint of reference for how to understand immigration in the United States." - Sharmila Rudrappa,University of Texas at Austin