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This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel and globalisation have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States and explains how their popular cutlural practices and aesthetic desires are changing. They are presented as the twenty-first century's "new cosmopolitanisms': flexible enough to adjust to globalisation's economic, political and cultural imperatives, yet maintaining elements of their distinct identity. They are thus uniquely adaptable to the mainstream culture of the United States, but also vulnerable in a period when nationalism and security have become tools to maintain traditional power relations in a changing world. About Author : Gita Rajan is James Watson Irwin Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at Hamilton Collge and Associate Professor at Fairfield University Shailja Sharma is Associate Professor of English at De Paul University Contents : Acknowledgements Contributors New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the United States at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century The Pakistani Diaspora in North America Identity and Visibility: Reflections on Museum Displays of South Asian Art South Asian Religions in the United States: New Contexts and Configurations Bollywood Abroad: South Asian Diasporic Cosmopolitanism and Indian Cinema The Psychological Cost of New Cosmopolitanism: Eating Disorders in the Context of Globalization Theorizing Recognition: South Asian Authors in a Global Milieu Index