Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture

In her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and fashion shape South Asian American cultural identities and racialized belonging from the 1990s to the late-2000s. She observes how diasporic subjects engage with and respond to various encounters with Indian beauty and fashion.

One of the first books to consider beauty and fashion as a point of entry into an examination of South Asian diasporic public cultures, Fashi...