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This is Our Body Politics. I'm guest host Sayyubojwajani, founder of Women's Democracy Lab, sitting in for Farai Chidea. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the United States,

and Indian Americans are the second largest Asian origin group, 4.1 million, according to the Census Bureau.

People of Indian descent make up the largest part of America's South Asian diaspora, which includes

Bangladeshis, Nepalis, Pakistanis, and Sri Lankans, as well as people from Bhutan and the Maldives.

With such a diverse community, what it means to be a South Asian American is a complex question.

Professor Bakirathimani joins us to dig into the community's history

and how South Asian Americans are politically represented today. Professor Mani is co-director

of Asian American Studies at Swarthmore College. She's an English professor and an expert in

post-colonial studies and transnational feminist studies.

Her most recent book, Unseeing Empire, Photography, Representation, South Asian America,

earned an honorable mention book award from the Association of Asian American Studies in 2022.

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