South Asian Mosiac : Dickinson College

examine issues of identity and acculturation among Indian populations in the U.S.

Entries for May, 2009

Amita Nayyar

May.05, 2009 in Amita Nayyar 1 Comment

Amita Nayyar Interview and Profile by Tara Bhattacharyya Video Recording by Tara Bhattacharyya Interview conducted on 4/23/09, Camp Hill, PA Amita Nayyar was born in New Delhi, the capital of India. In the late 60s, Amita’s father came home one day with a U.S. visa, which he won in a lottery, entitling him to emigrate […]

Sagar Patel

May.03, 2009 in Sagar Patel Leave a Comment

Sagar Patel Interview and Profile by Lia Choyce Video Recording by Sunnie Ko Interview conducted on 4/27/09, Harrisburg, PA Sagar Patel is a second generation Indian-American born and raised in Harrisburg, PA. His parents immigrated to America from Gujarat, India in the early 1970s, to pursue education and the dream of a land of opportunity. […]

  

Community-Based Research

As a course based on fieldwork with the local community, we have a responsibility to be aware of the ways that the community is opening itself to our inquiry and making its resources available for our learning. In turn, it is appropriate for us to think about what we can give back. In the planning for this course, we developed a collaborative project to produce a series of profiles of community members that we plan to publish on the Web, utilizing text, images, podcast or video from your interviews.