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Using written sources and numerous interviews, she invokes gender, generation, class, religion, language, and the dramatic political changes of the 1940s in South Asia and the United States to show how individual and group perceptions of ethnic identity have changed among Punjabi Mexican Americans in rural California.

After I had some grasp of the rural California context and the structure of the Punjabi-Mexican families, I began attending local events and meet-ing people.

Ethnic choices made by the descendants of Punjabi pioneers and their Mexican wives An understanding of the ethnic choices made by the Punjabi-Mexican descendants requires an excursion into the history of their community.

Karen Leonard, Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans. Peter Schrag, Paradise Lost: California’s Experience, America’s Future.

Leonard, Karen Isaksen. Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans (Philadelphia, 1992).

Dear Other Type of Indian: I try not to answer questions about interethnic amor (that’s more of a Dan Savage thing), but I’ll run yours because it allows me to plug Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans.

Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans (Asian American History & Culture) by Karen Isaksen Leonard...

Leonard's book, Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans, looks at the Punjabi immigrants who came to rural California in the early twentieth century and particularly at the families they formed with Hispanic women to explore transformations of ethnic identity in the United States.

She is the author of Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans (1992) and Social History ofan Indian Caste: The Kayasths of Hyderabad (1978).

See Indo-Iranian languages.-Mexican community in California and the southwest United States (Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans [Temple University Press, 1992]). In the following chapters - "The New South Asian Immigrants," "South Asian Religions in America," "Cultural Traditions: Continuity and...