Books by Karen Leonard

This work, intended for students, provides an examination of recent South Asian immigrant groups - the fastest growing segment of the US population. Topics include: patterns of immigration; adaptation to US life; women's roles; the family; and the compatibility of US and South Asian values.

Defines and changes perceptions of ethnic identity. This book invokes gender, generation, class, religion, language, and the dramatic political changes of the 1940s in South Asia and the United States to show how individual and group perceptions of ethnic identity have changed among Punjabi Mexican Americans in rural California.