Say it loud, I'm brown and I'm proud...

[rrrao]

I'm gonna be doing a presentation on this article tomorrow...:

Gautam Malkani on race and masculinity.

It's a looong one for an online article (although kinda lightweight if you're looking at it as an academic piece).

It's interesting to me that brown guys in the UK are making being East Indian a 'macho' thing... there are many parallels (or at

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"Those of you who work at bookstores"

[arwyn]

I'm still mad that I missed the bhangra festival in Vancouver due to poor planning on my part. I love that stuff.

Brandon has all these Indian engineering friends and they punch each other's fists and go, "Pound for the brown!" I mean, Brandon does it too, and he's really not brown. It's amusing.

Re: "Those of you who work at bookstores"

[rrrao]

Well, of course I think everyone should read it, but I was thinking you would be most easily able to get a hold of it first, and probably the most interested in doing so as well, what with all your Bollywood and bhangra consumption.. ;) (when was that festival, again?)

I like the idea of that 'pound for the brown' thing... heheh. And sure, Brandon can do it too... cultural identities are all fluid nowadays...

Re: "Those of you who work at bookstores"

[arwyn]

Your LJ icon is making me start to believe that that's what you look like. Kal Penn! It could be worse :P

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[rrrao]

Kal Penn is cool - I broke down and saw 'The Namesake' yesterday evening. We have to see it together, it was a great film... ;).