Pawan Dhingra: 2 books
Asian America
Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically...
Life Behind the Lobby
Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and—although they are not all related—seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most of these motel owners arrived in the United...