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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 05, 2007

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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV youth culture transnational South Asian promo MTV India ... not South Asians but of South Asia. People of South Asian origin in the United States commonly refer ... one's identity as South Asian but also as being "outside South Asia". As the young man reminds ...
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  Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 14, 2008

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  Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace globalization diaspora South Asian ... transnationalism Asian-American cable original programming India distribution Simply Desi ImaginAsian TV ... Note The featured video clip is from 2007 when Simply Desi, a 3 and ½ hour block of South Asian ...
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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  March 25, 2011

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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced television South Asians South ... Asian racial performance Outsourced India comedy Asian Americans Accent Curator's Note In the 2010 ... South Asian/American actors and South Asian American writers. According to writer Geethika Lizardi, the ...