Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film

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Index accents: belonging and, 1–2, 4, 6, 40–41, 46–50; brownface performances and, 13, 99; characteristics of, 30–32, 45; as cultural objects, 2, 97–102; definitions of, 2–4, 98, 130, 159n3; discrimination and, 4; immigrant status and, 122–23, 125, 142–45; John Wayne’s idiosyncrasy and, 1–2, 5, 15; Midwestern, 5, 160n8; mystic stereotypes and, 85–86; othering and, 85–86, 100, 133–34, 138–41; parody and, 14–15, 111–12; post-9/11 era and, 141–45; privilege and, 8, 40–41, 44; racialization processes and, 43–44, 46–50, 65, 155, 157, 166n1, 167n7; racial or ethnic performativity and, 3, 6, 13; self-fashioning narratives and, 77–84; Southerners and, 133, 141, 145–48; voice acting and, 40–43; whiteness and, 78–84 Actor’s Studio, The, 58 Adventures of Johnny Quest (series), 170n43 Afghanistan, 8, 127, 135, 152 African Americans: minstrel shows and, 11–12; racial performance and, 7, 47–48, 124, 134–35, 146; stereotypical roles for, 69, 100, 107, 147, 149; television programming and, 50–51, 66–67, 83, 171n12 Aliens in America (series), 70–71 All-American Girl (Cho), 146, 157 American Dream, 3, 72, 77–84, 91–92, 102– 27, 141, 151–53. See also United States Amnesty International, 129 Amritraj, Vijay, 32 animated cartoons: model minority tropes in, 76–84; racialization’s inflections in, 48–49, 61–62, 92, 166n1; voice acting in, 41–43, 47–50. See also specific series animatedtv.com (Web site), 53 Apu (Simpsons character). See Nahasapeemapetilon , Apu Arab Americans, 134–35, 140, 143–44, 148 Arendt, Hannah, 159n3 Asian Americans: foreignness tropes and, 120, 148–49; Harold and Kumar films and, 4, 17, 112, 115–16; misrecognition of, 138–45; model minority trope and, 4, 34–35, 67–73, 85–86, 116–27, 145; Orientalism and, 10–14, 36; patriotism tropes and, 138–41; racialization of, 5, 11, 62, 115–16, 130–34; spirituality stereotypes and, 85– 86; whitewashing and, 49–50 Asian Indians. See Indian Americans Asian Pacific American (racial category), 7 assimilation processes, 12, 15, 40–41, 57–73, 77–84, 105–10, 152, 174n42 Attenborough, Richard, 73, 74 Austin Powers (films), 93 Azaria, Hank, 19, 30–31, 49–50, 54, 55, 58, 90 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 163n44 Bakshi, Hrundi V. (character), 19–39, 42, 49 Bangladesh, 7–8 Baranski, Christine, 91, 107 Dave_Indian text.indd 183 1/8/13 10:36 AM 184 . index Basile, Nancy, 53–54 Beatles, The (band), 94 Beavis and Butthead (series), 66 Bedi, Kabir, 33 Beltrán, Mary, 10, 13 Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (Madden), 155 Better Luck Tomorrow (Lin), 179n21 Bhabha, Homi, 23–24, 32, 56–58, 77, 81 Big Bang Theory, The (series), 35, 70 Bin Laden, Osama, 132 blackface, 7, 11–12, 14, 23, 48. See also minstrel shows; performativity Blackface, White Noise (Rogin), 12 Blade Runner (Scott), 34 Bollywood, 37, 98, 100–103, 107, 128, 135, 154, 174n38, 175n46 Borat (Charles), 91, 128 Bow, Leslie, 146–48 Boyle, Danny, 38, 152 British Empire (or British Raj), 6–9, 15–16, 19–41, 65–66 bromance (genre), 119–20, 149–50, 179n20 Brooks, Albert, 128 Brooks, James L., 52 brownface: assimilationist narratives and, 27–29, 114–15, 152; blackface’s relation to, 27; colonial narratives and, 20–39; definitions of, 3, 28, 164n1; Hollywood representations and, 37–38, 40–42, 60–82, 117, 123; Jimmy Mistry and, 17; Mike Myers and, 86; parodies of, 86–110; Peter Sellers and, 17, 30, 38–39, 42, 49, 110, 165n20, 178n14; post-9/11 era and, 129–30; satirical deconstructions of, 114–15; science fiction and, 34–38; as theoretical lens, 7–8, 13; yellowface’s relation to, 21. See also accents; blackface; Indian Americans; Nahasapeemapetilon, Apu; racialization; Sellers, Peter; South Asians; yellowface brown voice, 8; characteristics of, 30–32, 48–49, 99; definitions of, 3, 14, 40–41, 44; Indian American associations of, 40–59; mimicry and, 56–58, 77–78, 80–81, 118, 155; Peter Sellers and, 16, 19–39; satirical deconstructions of, 114–15; second-generation Indian immigrants and, 64, 71, 83; as theoretical lens, 7, 47–48, 56–58, 114–15 Bush, George W., 18, 67, 128, 137, 140–41, 148 Canby, Vincent, 75 capitalism. See class; consumerism Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 28 Chadha, Gurinder, 166n29, 177n30 Chan, Jackie, 116 Chapman, James, 27, 164n7 Charles, Larry, 91, 128 China, 27–28 Chinese Americans, 9, 37, 69, 107, 163n48 Chinese Exclusion Act, 6, 15, 163n48 Cho, John, 4, 17...