When My Brown Got Colored

IF 0.2 Q4 WOMENS STUDIES Meridians-Feminism Race Transnationalism Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1215/15366936-10637564

Sreerekha Sathi

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Abstract This essay is a testimonial of the author’s experiences, memories, and reflections about becoming a person/woman of color, discovering, and unearthing the meanings of racialization, white privilege, and white supremacy in the contemporary United States. The author gives voice to her new migrant experience as a Brown woman from India, positioning her reflections and learnings amidst the history and politics of colonialism and capitalist development, linking it to contemporary neoliberal academia in the United States. By sharing some events and encounters in her relatively short stint in Charlottesville, Virginia, between 2016 and 2019, the author reviews her attempts to critically analyze concepts like women of color, diversity, colorism, privilege, invisibility, and othering. The article further connects some of the author’s experiences of racialization in view of the growing politics of casteism and Brahmanical supremacy in India, locating and reassessing herself in the midst of Trump’s hardened propagation of white privilege in the United States and Modi’s Hindutva, both emanating a politics rooted in racialization, exploitation, and marginalization of the other.

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当我的棕色被涂上颜色

这篇文章是作者成为一个有色人种的经历、记忆和思考，发现和揭示了当代美国种族化、白人特权和白人至上主义的意义。作者讲述了她作为一名来自印度的棕色女性的新移民经历，将她的反思和学习定位于殖民主义和资本主义发展的历史和政治中，并将其与当代美国新自由主义学术界联系起来。通过分享她在2016年至2019年期间在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔相对较短的时间内发生的一些事件和遭遇，作者回顾了她批判性地分析有色人种女性、多样性、肤色主义、特权、隐形等概念的尝试。鉴于印度日益增长的种姓制度和婆罗门至上主义政治，这篇文章进一步将作者的一些种族化经历联系起来，在特朗普在美国强化白人特权的传播和莫迪的印度教至上主义中定位和重新评估自己，两者都产生了植根于种族化，剥削和边缘化的政治。

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