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Amy Bhatt, Ph.D. is a writer, educator, and content creator. She received her B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies from Emory University and her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
She is the author of High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration (University of Washington Press, 2018) and co-author of Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest (University of Washington Press, 2013) with Dr. Nalini Iyer.
As a public historian, she coordinated the South Asian Oral History Project at UW and currently serves on the South Asian American Digital Archive’s Board of Directors. She was a researcher and guest curator at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) from 2018-2021, where she co-curated the traveling Smithsonian exhibit Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation (2019-20)
Currently, she and her writing partner, Shiwani Srivastava, have an animated feature film in development with ReelFX and a television pilot in development with Gunpowder & Sky.
In today's conversation, we talk about:
Definition of India
Castes
The History of India
The History of Indian Immigration to India
First wave: 1800s to 1920s, Sikh and Punjabi immigrants (1917-1952: dead period immigration)
Second Wave: 1965-1980, educated, higher-income immigrants
Third Wave: 1980-1990s, diverse backgrounds, including small businesses owners
Fourth Wave: 1990s, immigration to work in the tech industry
Prejudice and Discrimination
The case of Bhagad Thind
The Model Minority Myth
How the co-existence of culture with historical, economic, and social advantages contributes to the model minority myth