Understanding Domestic Violence Within the Urban Indian Community.

This chapter takes as its starting point an oral history project with a number of inspirational Minnesota Ojibwe women who lived and worked in Minneapolis, among them Gertrude Howard Buckanaga, Pat Bellanger, Rose Robinson, and Vikki Howard, who shared stories about their own mentors in the Indian community. It shows how for these activists personal networks with other Indian people were essential to city survival, and their efforts were an expression of indigenous values, and cultural capital, that resulted in the emergence of distinctive urban Indian communities. Women's networks and their invention of unique community formations generated unanticipated opportunities leading to professionalization and higher education not only for themselves.

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A Place Where I Can Let My Hair Down: from social club to cultural center in an urban Indian community

City & Society ◽

10.1525/city.2001.13.1.31 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 31-55

Author(s):

Deborah Davis Jackson

Keyword(s):

Cultural Center ◽

Indian Community ◽

Social Club ◽

Urban Indian

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Developing a Voice: The Evolution of Self-Determination in an Urban Indian Community

Wicazo Sa Review ◽

10.1353/wic.2002.0014 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 117-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

David Beck

Keyword(s):

Self Determination ◽

Indian Community ◽

Urban Indian

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Postcolonial Patriarchal Nativism, Domestic Violence and Transnational Feminist Research in Contemporary Uganda

Feminist Review ◽

10.1177/0141778918818835 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 121 (1) ◽

pp. 37-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anneeth Kaur Hundle

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Middle Class ◽

Asian Indian ◽

Global South ◽

Feminist Research ◽

Research Approach ◽

Migrant Woman ◽

Indian Community ◽

High Profile

This article examines the development of a multidimensional, transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda in relation to a high-profile case of domestic violence and femicide of a middle-class, upper-caste Indian migrant woman in Kampala in 1998. It explores indigenous Ugandan public and Ugandan Asian/Indian community interpretations and the dynamics of cross-racial feminist mobilisation and protest that emerged in response to the Joshi-Sharma domestic violence case. In doing so, it advocates for a transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda and the Global South that works against the grain of nationalist and nativist biases in existing feminist scholarly trends. This approach lays bare power inequalities and internal tensions within and across racialised African and Asian communities, and thus avoids the romanticisation of cross-racial feminist African-Asian solidarities.

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