Content tagged "South Asia"
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Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
Vivek Bald will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.
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Cultural Curator
Comparative Media Studies graduate student and New York City DJ Rekha Malhotra draws inspiration from the intersection of art and activism.
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Podcast: Vivek Bald, “Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past”
Vivek Bald, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengalis who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era.
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New Histories of the South Asian Diaspora
A reading and discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur and Vivek Bald.
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Aswin Punathambekar: “Media, Sociability, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
Instead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
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The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power
A more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States, focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of unacknowledged migrants.
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Vivek Bald talks about “Bengali Harlem” on the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)
“Vivek Bald, documentary director and assistant professor of writing and digital media at MIT and the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, reveals the little known history of early South Asian immigrants, from Tremé to Harlem.”
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The Hidden History of Bengali Harlem
Vivek Bald’s new book details the overlooked waves of South Asian immigrants to the United States.
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Contemporary Issues in South Asian Diasporic Popular Culture
Shilpa Dave, Dhiraj Murthy, and Helen Kim on contemporary issues in South Asian pop culture, with a focus on youth cultures and cultural translation.
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Cultural Politics of the South Asian Diaspora: Popular Cultural Responses to the “War on Terror”
Rajini Srikanth and Vijay Prashad discuss two South Asian popular cultural responses to 9-11 and ‘the war on terror’: M.I.A.’s ‘Born Free’ music video, and the Bollywood film ‘My Name is Khan’.
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Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
Combining music documentary and social documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990’s Britain. Featuring: Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, Fun-Da-Mental, Anjali, DJ Ritu, Black Star Liner and many others.
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Dub, Diasporas & Digital: Vivek Bald
From dub music to South Asian Diasporas, to political theory and a PhD in American Studies, and onto digital media – the colorful professional trajectory of Vivek Bald has led him from his former base in New York to MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program.
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Web of Words: Poetry, Fandom and Globality
Media change, negotiation of literary value and postcolonial hybridity through a study of The Wondering Minstrels, a largely South-Asian community on the Web dedicated to the celebration of English poetry.
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Radhika Gajjala
Consuming/Producing/Inhabiting South Asian Digital Diasporas with Radhika Gajjala.
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Between the Lines: Negotiating South Asian LBGT Identity
Between the Lines is the first event of its kind to be organized in the Boston/Cambridge area.
