Reviewed by Uzma Quraishi | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

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Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities. By Pawan Dhingra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. xi + 316 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $21.95 (paper).

The sociologist Pawan Dhingra opens his book with the defining question, "How does an individual make sense of and handle his or her multiple, sometimes conflicting identities?" (p. 1) In this thoughtful and well-written work, Dhingra investigates how Indian and Korean Americans in Dallas, Texas, simultaneously distinguish between and reconcile their ethnic, racial, and American identities in daily life. Though an expansive body of sociological literature has analyzed many perspectives of acculturation and assimilation, few studies focus on these processes as experienced by Asian Americans in the South. Even fewer studies juxtapose the experiences and thoughts of Korean Americans with those of Indian Americans. Though the two groups differ in appearance, religion, and first-generational occupation patterns, Dhingra finds that members of the second generation are similar in both educational and labor-market success. While acknowledging distinctions between the two groups, Dhingra focuses on the areas of overlap, including adaptation and race relations.

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